An extremely rare Chelsea ‘crayfish’ salt

An extremely rare Chelsea 'crayfish' salt, after the silver original by Nicholas Sprimont, modelled with a crayfish, modelled from life, crawling across a rock, before a naturalistic upturned clam shell and applied with shells, coral and seaweed, and picked out in coloured enamels, 4 3/4" wide, circa 1745-49, no mark

Provenance; American Private Collection 

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