Oil and vinegar set with two bottles and a sugar sifter in a pointed oval holder
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
The pointed oval holder of the oil and vinegar set has a vaulted wall, slightly raised on the sides. It rests on four tapering downwards, curved, ribbed feet. Above these feet and along the upper side of the holder run fillet edges. The wall is pierced with a pattern of (partially damaged) lying lattices between two smooth bands, above which a pattern of pointed arches. In the short sides rounded triangular ears are cut out. In the holder there is an oval insert with a vaulted wall, slightly raised on the short sides. This is pierced with a pattern of standing lattices. In the upper side there are two large and four small round openings. In the large openings fit two equal, in various cutting work decorated bottles of colourless glass, intended for oil and vinegar. The upper part of each bottle is set in a silver mount which is decorated with a pearl border between profile edges.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description