Triple Salt Cellar

c. 1765 Overall: 7.7 x 10.2 cm (3 1/16 x 4 in.) Source image
https://clevelandart.org/art/1953.279

In 16th-century France, salt was costly and often displayed in exceptionally designed and decorated salt cellars that reinforced wealth and status. Still elegantly designed and ornamented, this triple salt cellar is small, a result of the decreasing decorative and symbolic imp...

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