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| Keywords: Patanazzi family - Boat-Shaped Salt Cellar - Walters 481361.jpg The importance of the salt cellar from the French salière a shallow vessel for salt on the Renaissance table reflected not only the critical role of salt in cooking but the pleasure taken in extravagant vessels to embellish the banquet table In this elaborately molded example the painted marine motifs with sea monsters and dolphins reflect the object's function since salt was a product of the sea The ingenious shape of this cellar ornamented with the heads of hybrid creatures exemplifies the late Renaissance delight in inventiveness ca 1575 1600 Renaissance earthenware with tin glaze maiolica cm 19 23 7 accession number 48 1361 39973 Jacques Seligmann Paris by purchase Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1912 A Renaissance Gem Revealed Petrarch's Triumphs Disbound The Walters Art Museum Baltimore 2002 place of origin Urbino Italy Walters Art Museum license Italian Renaissance maiolica in the Walters Art Museum Patanazzi workshop Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Salt cellars | ||||
