Anne Smith was an English silversmith working in partnership with Nathaniel Appleton. Unusually, Smith does not appear to have been the widow of a silversmith when she registered her mark on 26 July 1771; her marital status at the time is given instead as "unknown". She lived in

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and was classified as a

smallworker A largeworker was a form of silversmith in England from the 17th to the early 20th centuries who made items of a larger size such as dishes or candlesticks. When craftsmen registered their mark they would classify themselves as "goldworker", "sma ...

. Her partnership with Appleton appears in the Parliamentary Report list of 1773. The couple specialized in the making of

saltcellar A salt cellar (also called a salt, salt-box and a salt pig) is an article of tableware for holding and dispensing salt. In British English, the term is normally used for what in North American English are called salt shakers. Salt cellars can b ...

s and small cream jugs. A George III cream jug of 1773 and a set of four George III saltcellars of 1782 by the partners are owned by the

National Museum of Women in the Arts The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), located in Washington, D.C., is "the first museum in the world solely dedicated" to championing women through the arts. NMWA was incorporated in 1981 by Wallace and Wilhelmina Holladay. Since ope ...

, while a collection of saltcellars is owned by the

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. Numerous other pieces are known to exist as well.

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