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On short term loan out for exhibition

Salt Cellar

ca. 1525 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Salt-cellar in the form of a reversible table with shallow well in the middle of both top and bottom, and six curved sides. Top and bottom are both usable and are of identical design. Painted in blue and green and with red and gold lustre.

Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware
Brief description
Salt cellar in form of table with central shallow well and six curved sides, made in Gubbio, Italy, about 1525, tin-glazed earthenware
Physical description
Salt-cellar in the form of a reversible table with shallow well in the middle of both top and bottom, and six curved sides. Top and bottom are both usable and are of identical design. Painted in blue and green and with red and gold lustre.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 16.2cm
  • Height: 7.2cm
Gallery label
Salt-cellar Made in Gubbio, Italy about 1525 Tin-glazed earthenware 522-1865 Soulages Collection(16/07/2008)
Object history
Purchase: Soulages Collection.
Production
John Mallet, 19-1-1999. For a salt of this form, but Tuscan and late 16th-century: see a painting by Tarchiani in the Norton Simon Coll., Los Angeles.
Bibliographic references
  • Mattei, Pietro and Tonina Cecchetti. Mastro Giorgio : l'uomo, l'artista, l'imprenditore. Perugia : Camera di commercio, industria, artigianato e agricoltura, 1995. 118 p., fig.13.
  • Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, London : H.M.S.O., 1977
  • L. Komaroff (ed.) Dining with the Sultan: The Fine Art of Feasting. Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles: 2023), p.333, cat. no. 126b
Other number
661 - Rackham (1977)
Collection
Accession number
522-1865

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
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