Salt Cellar
ca. 1600 (made)
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Salt cellar, moulded in the form of an oval vase with well at the top bordered with beads, an applied escutcheon on either side flanked by baroque volutes, and, at each end, a lion's mask, above which is a naked seated figure of a boy holding a shell. The vase is supported by two volutes at each end and a paw at each side on a high pedestal with curved recesses in its sides.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Tin-glazed earthenware |
| Brief description | Oval, vase-shaped salt cellar with volutes, lion's masks, and boys with shells, probably made in Patanazzi workshop, Urbino, about 1600, tin-glazed earthenware |
| Physical description | Salt cellar, moulded in the form of an oval vase with well at the top bordered with beads, an applied escutcheon on either side flanked by baroque volutes, and, at each end, a lion's mask, above which is a naked seated figure of a boy holding a shell. The vase is supported by two volutes at each end and a paw at each side on a high pedestal with curved recesses in its sides. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | 'EXCVBIAS AGIMVS STREPITV Q REPELLIMVS HOSTEM' (Latin. Painted in the well) |
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| Object history | Purchase: Soulages Collection. |
| Bibliographic reference | Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, London : H.M.S.O., 1977 |
| Other number | 886 - Rackham (1977) |
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| Accession number | 509-1865 |
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| Record created | July 16, 2008 |
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