  About the Artwork
  
  
  The prominent Arts and Crafts architect and designer C.F.A. Voysey created this salt cellar - and its accompanying spoon - in 1907 for his home, The Orchard, in Chorley Wood, England. These tablewares remained in his possession throughout his life and with his family until their purchase by the DIA.

Voysey was known especially for his modern country houses and his designs for domestic furnishings, including textiles, ceramics, and metalwork. As superbly exemplified by the salt cellar, Voysey's three-dimensional objects are characterized by their simple profiles and understated ornament employed to enhance the natural beauty of the materials he used.
  
  
  Title
  Salt Cellar
  
  
  Artwork Date
  1907
  
  
  
  
  Makers
  
  
  C.F.A. Voysey  (Designer)
  English, 1857-1941
  Edward Barnard and Sons Ltd.  (Manufacturer)
  English, active 1829 - 1910
  
  
  
  Medium
  Silver gilt
  
  
  Dimensions
  Overall: 2 3/4 × 4 5/16 × 4 5/16 inches (7 × 11 × 11 cm)
  
  
  Classification
  Metalwork
  
  
  Department
  European Modern Art to 1970
  
  
  Credit
  Founders Society Purchase, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts General Fund
  
  
  
  Accession Number
  
  
  
  This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection.
  Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings.
  For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups.
  
  
  
  2000.110.1
  
  
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