Dish, Salt
- Object Name:
- Dish, Salt
- Object ID:
- 2017.014.099
- Creator:
- Gillette, John
- Place of Origin:
- Weare, NH
- Date:
- 1800-1809
- Description:
- Salt Dish. Turned brown maple bowl with curved sides and pedestal foot. With note: "Wooden salt dish my / gr. grand mother - / Hannah Davis Cilley - / had when married in / 1809 / inside".
- Material:
- Wood
- Dimensions:
- H-1.8 Dia-2.8 inches
- Provenance:
- Part of the Ethel Cilley Stone Collection, consisting of objects, documents, photographs, and memorabilia related to James Stone (1780-1874) and his wife Mary East Beard Stone (1791-1875) of Dunbarton; their son Captain Andrew J. Stone (1828-1864) of Dunbarton, California, etc.; Wesley Page Stone (1833-1916) and his wife Alice Patten Cilley (1849-1934) of Dunbarton; and their daughter, schoolteacher and family historian Ethel Cilley Stone (1884-1981) of Dunbarton and Goffstown.
The collection descended to Ethel Cilley Stone. After her death, the bulk of her estate passed to her minister, Rev. Graham T. Rowley (1932-2012) of Goffstown, then to his children, the donors. - Credit Line:
- Gift of Daniel T. Rowley and Elizabeth A. Rowley
- People:
- Cilley, Hannah (1784-1876), Cilley, Joshua F. (1785-1863), Gillette, John, Stone, Ethel Cilley (1884-1981)
- Subjects:
- Table settings and decorations, Table salt, Salt
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