Epicurean history note: Celery came from England to North America as a luxury vegetable. English taste favored celery as blanched stalks nibbled raw with salt, a winter salad, or dressed in a mustard vinaigrette and eaten chopped as a slaw. The English and Anglo-Americans also found celery sauce to be the ideal accompaniment of roasted fowls and mutton.
Celery was a status food: a rare delicacy that only wealthy families could afford and, therefore, a way to demonstrate your importance to guests. Celery vases were replaced by celery dishes, as they were "less conspicuous" on the dining table. True aristocrats set matching salt dips at each place setting, as not to contaminate salt cellars from guests dipping their celery stalks.
This beautiful set is made up of a celery serving dish and 6 individual salt cups - the perfect set for enjoying an aristocrat's gourmet delight! Even if you choose to use the pieces in another way, serving set for nuts or candies at your next party, soaps in the boudoir or even as a centerpiece and place settings.... you must agree that an artisan's eye created wonderful works of art!!
The red stamp on each piece of "Japan" identifies the production/import period of 1921 to 1941. For being approx. 102 years old, each piece is in exceptional antique condition!
Each piece has been meticulously hand painted in a beautiful green floral design and accented with brown, gold and porcelain paste white dots. The server measures 13-1/4" long, 5-1/5" wide and 2" tall. The 6 salt dip cups measure 3-1/2" long, 2" wide and 5/8" tall. The only item of note is that the serving dish has minor wear to the design - indicative to usage in a piece of this age. Other than that, there are NO chips, cracks, crazing or repairs.
This exquisite set would either make a prized addition to any antique porcelain collection or be a perfect gift idea for the discerning admirer of fine quality, artistically designed objects of amazing beauty!
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