Salt Cellar with the Life of Hercules
Salt cellars are vessels for serving salt, an expensive spice during this period, as part of a formal dinner setting. In the depression for the salt is an idealized image of Deianira, Hercules's wife, with the inscription reading, "I am the beautiful Deianira." A parallel imag...
Artifact
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37949
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object
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normalized
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provenance
Didier-Petit Collection Sale (?), Paris, March 15, 1843, and following days, lot 122 [if this salt is indeed the piece in this sale it had a companion piece, lot 121, with the heads of Paris and Tibea in the cavities (ie., Pyramus and Thisbe)]; Seligmann Bros., Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, [date of acquisition unknown] by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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CC0
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language
en
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pageCount
1
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import
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| largeImageUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_44.362_Fnt_BW_H65.jpg |
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| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.362 |
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Medium
painted enamel on copper