GEORGE III. 1786.
Cloven hoof feet.
OBLONG SALT WITH FOUR FEET.
GEORGE III. 1789.
Feet with club terminal.
(By courtesy of Messrs. Elkington & Co.)
The cloven-hoof foot or the club terminal are found in the round shaped salt cellar in the same period or slightly later. Usually this type is found with three feet. This plain form dispenses with the glass liner.
Towards the close of the eighteenth century the styles become varied. There is the tureen form, from which type many variations are based. Similarly the boat-shaped salt is typical of many similar plain designs of this nature—some with two handles.
The examples illustrated ([p. 171]), in vogue from 1781 to 1797, show the generic type from which similar forms deviate.