Design for Salt Cellars, from Dessins d'orfèvrerie (Designs for Metalwork)
date: label: Date
content: 1540–1560
name: label: Attributed to
content: Léonard Thiry, Flemish, 1550
label: Circle of
content: Rosso Fiorentino, Italian,1494 - 1540
label: Engraver
content: René Boyvin, French, 1525 - 1625
label: Engraver
content: Pierre Milan, French, 1500 - 1557
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Fontainebleau school. Design for two salt cellars. The base of the left salt cellar is made of intertwined bodies, and a pair coupling under a watchful mask. On the top is Cybele, the many-breasted goddess of fertility, wearing a turret crown and surrounded by animals. The base of the right salt cellar shows sphinxes, pearls and a grotesque mask. Above is Neptune with his trident, in a reclining posture, accompanied by his horses.
place: label: made in
content: France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1921-6-470-2
objectType: label: Type
content: albums (bound) & books
label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Engraving on laid paper