Boat-Shaped Salt Cellar

ca. 1575-1600 (Renaissance)

23.7 cm 19 cm

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During the Renaissance, there was a great demand for clever, extravagant objects on the table, and containers for salt were essential components of maiolica tableware. On this salt cellar (from the French "salière" ), the artist depicts a goat’s head above a bearded mask on ei...

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Jacques Seligmann, Paris, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1912, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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