Silver salt shaker throne of planetary character. S. Ovchinnikov. Moscow. Russia 1876

Silver salt shaker throne with a planetary, cosmogonic, philosophical decorative program. Acts as a container for storing the salt of life - the concentration of earthly wisdom. Demonstrates a monumental slotted back with a spherical model of the universe: from a fairy-tale tree, a village in the green gardens on a slope, to a five-domed top above the dome of heaven. The front side of the lid bears the homespun truth of life, the peaceful slogan: no salt, no bread - half a meal. Where on the inside is the Slavic script of infinity in a circle - personifies the philosophical formula of the extension of time and the wishes of eternal truths. Thus, before our eyes, an everyday item turns into a container for storing the salt of life, as a concentrate of earthly wisdom. Rise above the everyday to sacred revelations. The body of the work is decorated in neo-Russian style, with a window for the owner’s initials, waves of lambrequins, four-part rollers imitating the weaving of a vine, and placed on four tiered legs. Moscow hallmarks of 84 hallmark silver, 1876, assay master Viktor Savinkov. Mark of the master S. Ovchinnikov. Height: 11.5 cm. Weight: 166 g.