Antique Celery Serving Dish Set / 6 Matching Salt Dip Cups / Germany circa 1900's / Salt Cellars Snack Set / deals Bowl Nut Pickle or Relish Dish

deals Epicurean history note: Celery came from England to North America as a luxury vegetable. English taste favored celery as blanched stalks nibbled raw with salt, a winter salad, or dressed in a mustard vinaigrette and eaten chopped as a slaw. The English and Anglo-Americans also found celery sauce to be the ideal accompaniment to roasted fowls and mutton.

Celery was a status food: a rare delicacy that only wealthy families could afford and, therefore, a way to demonstrate your importance to guests. Celery vases were replaced by celery dishes, as they were “less conspicuous” on the dining table. True aristocrats set matching salt dips at each place setting, so as not to contaminate salt cellars from guests dipping their celery stalks.

This beautiful set is made up of a celery serving dish and 6 individual salt cups – the perfect set for enjoying an aristocrat's gourmet delight! Even if you choose to use the pieces in another way; serving set for nuts or candies at your next party, soaps in the boudoir. The server measures 11-3/4” long, 5-1/4” wide, and 1-7/8” tall. The 6 salt dip cups measure 3-3/8” long, 2-1/8” wide and 5/8” tall.

The green marker's mark on each piece of “Leutchenburg Germany with the castle” identifies the maker as Lehmann & Sohn, G.A. Porzellanbarikin in Kahla, Germany, and has a production period of 1895 to 1921. For being between 96 and 122 years old each piece is in exceptional antique condition!