Samuel Kirk
Shell-Shaped Salt
1828
Physical Qualities
Silver, gilt, 1 1/2 × 3 × 4 in. (3.8 × 7.6 × 10.2 cm.)
Credit Line
Friends of the American Wing Fund
Object Number
1979.13.1
A layer of gilding in the bowl of this salt dish protected the silver from its corrosive contents.
Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1979; Friends of the American Wing Fund
Markings: on top edge at front tip: "F"; oval shape divided into 4 even sections, with bottom left and top right sections shaded; "SK"
On View: American Wing Second Floor, Eltonhead Hallway/Case 3
