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1st item: Rare diminutive 18th century Dutch individual chocolate pot with ebonized turned wood handle and hinged cover. Lion and shield finial over a cushion-form lid with repousse floral and scroll decoration, which repeats on the body. Mask at spout, over a cartouche with repousse landscape of cows grazing under a tree in a pasture to one side and a sailing scene to the other. Four masks at the base terminate in paw feet. Hallmarked to underside with partly illegible date letters. Monogrammed RRH to underside. 4 3/4 in. H. Together with two English Victorian repousse salt cellars with engraved crests and pad feet, having hallmarks attributed to Robert Hennell, London, 1861 and 1865, and two twist handle salt spoons by the same maker, hallmarked for 1868. Total weight all items (excluding silverplated bowl): 7.81 oz troy.
PROVENANCE: The estate of Josephine Ralston Binns (Mrs. Douglas Binns), Nashville/Fayetteville TN.
CONDITION: Some wear to exteriors of salt cellars. Spoons and chocolate pot in excellent condition.
