Cruet Stand

Myer Myers American

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 750

Quintessentially rococo is this frame to hold condiment containers for the dinner table. Sugar, pepper, and other spices would have been dispensed from silver casters and oil and vinegar from glass cruets. Most silver cruet stands used in America were imported from England and were equipped, as is this New York example, with a central openwork handle, shell feet, and an asymmetrical cartouche for an engraved armorial or script monogram.

Cruet Stand, Myer Myers (1723–1795), Silver, American

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Cruet Stand, Myer Myers (1723–1795), Silver, American
Cruet Stand, Myer Myers (1723–1795), Silver, American
Cruet Stand, Myer Myers (1723–1795), Silver, American

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