Antique Gorham Sterling Silver Shell Form Salt Dish and Spoon

Both the shell form salt and the spoon are marked with the Gorham trademark and "Sterling / 2035," the salt dish is also marked with the 1887 date symbol (2 1/4 x 1 3/8 in.); the spoon with applied starfish to handle, no monograms.

Salt dish - 2 1/4 x 1 3/8 in.; Salt spoon - 2 1/2 in.

.4 total troy oz.

In the 1880s, the Gorham Manufacturing Company embraced Aesthetic Movement and Japonisme influences, producing silver that reflected the period’s growing Western interest in Japanese art and design.

This salt dish and spoon relate closely to Gorham’s Narragansett pattern, introduced in 1884. Named for the Narragansett people of coastal Rhode Island, the design draws on local marine motifs such as shells, seaweed, and other shoreline forms found along the region’s waters.

Good estate condition.

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