Full title: Two Chelsea porcelain shell-form salts, England, 18th C. Description: L.: 10,5 cm - H.: 5,5 cm (the largest)Ê Ref.: - Sotheby's, New York, Nov. 11, 2006, lot 716, for another set. (sold USD 11.400) (link available on our website)- The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Accession Number C.73-1938, for a similar example. (link available on our website) The catalogue entry notes: Nicholas Sprimont (1716-1771) made crayfish salts in silver before he founded the Chelsea porcelain factory. He made some in 1742-1743 for a marine-themed table setting commissioned by Frederick, Prince of Wales. Sprimont repeated the design at the Chelsea factory around 1745 and continued to make them in the 1750s: he included six pairs in a London auction of Chelsea porcelain held in 1756.