Sand Shaker
c. 1780
4 5/8 in. x 4 5/8 in. x 4 5/8 in.
Artist/Maker Unknown,
Object Type:
Household Object
Medium and Support:
earthenware
Credit Line:
Florence Griswold Museum; Gift of the Phoebe Griffin Noyes-Old Lyme Library, from the Evelyn MacCurdy Salisbury Ceramics Collection
Accession Number:
1959.35
An English creamware sand shaker of earthenware with a lead glaze. The shaker is a cylinder with a perforated dome. Sand dispensed from this type of shaker was used to blot ink.