Description
Antique French enamel Salt box Japy with green shades, airbrushed wild flowers, antique kitchenalia, French vintage enamelware salt box.
DESCRIPTION:
Very lovely and rare antique enamel Salt (Sel) box, white base color and light green shades, airbrushed and stenciled decoration featuring wild flowers, cobalt blue fillets and black lettering.
Decoration is in tones of pink, mauve, yellow and green. Wooden lid.
This salt box is not signed (many enameled pieces were not signed as they originally had paper labels) but it is a model produced by Japy manufacture, decor n. 36, dating to years 1920’s-’30’s.
HOW TO USE IT:
This antique salt box is really a lovely piece, and would be a gorgeous addition to your collection of antique French enamelware and kitchenalia. It’s ready to hang in your kitchen and will immediately bring the special atmosphere of an antique kitchen in the countryside…..
CONDITIONS:
Conditions of this salt box are good for its age, decoration is intact with just light fading to one side, there are some rusty dings to edge on the vertical part and above the base to one side, Interior has rust with 2 tiny holes. The wooden lid has one broken hinge.
MEASURES:
Base of this salt box measures 5 1/2″ by 4 1/2″ (14 cm by 11.5 cm), maximum height is 10″ (25.4 cm).
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