Design for a Salt Cellar
date: label: Date
content: 1795–1805
name: label: Designer
content: Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Elevation of a salt cellar. The octagonal base is stepped and beveled. Upon this are two eagle caryatids with paw feet and scrolling wings. Between them they support the vessel, decorated with leaves at the bottom and gadrooning at rim. The cup is a breast-shaped mastos form.
place: label: made in
content: Italy
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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: Museum purchase through gift of various donors
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1901-39-1162
objectType: label: Type
content: tableware designs
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and ink, brush and wash on paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 15.6 × 11.6 cm (6 1/8 × 4 9/16 in.)