The oval salt cellar is divided into three compartments which were for a selection of condiments including salt (and celery or garlic salt) and spices such as pepper. cloves nutmeg and ginger.^[1] The form presumably derives from a lost silver original.

Another of this rare form was exhibited at the Musée de Saint-Cloud in 1997[2].

Condition:
The finial has a fine crack along where it joins the body and has probably been restuck

Provenance:
Private collection

References:

Juvigny 1997
Sophie de Juvigny, et. al., La porcelaine à Saint-Cloud, catalogue d’exposition

Savill 2012
Rosalind Savill, Everyday Rococo, Madame de Pompadour and Sevres Porcelain, (Unicorn Publishing Group, 2021)

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[1] Savill 2021, vol. I, p. 508.

[2] Juvigny 1997, p. 44, no. 53.