Lot n° 17
Estimation :
35000 - 40000
EUR
A rare architectural salt cellar in silver-gilt - Lot 17
A rare architectural salt cellar in silver-gilt
The hexagonal salt cellar rests on six chimera-shaped feet with female heads. Each side is decorated with a niche featuring mythological figures, and motifs of Corinthian columns, pilasters, shells and, at the bottom, foliage scrolls with dragon heads in cartouches. Good condition.
Spanish-Flemish, 16th century
Height: 8.2 cm.
Overall width: 13.3 cm.
Bowl width: 10.5 cm.
Weight: 540 g
Provenance:
Maurice Kann Collection, Paris,
His sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 5-8 December 1910, lot 284 (sold for 800 fr).
Comparative bibliography:
- La Collection Spitzer. Antiquités, Moyen-Âge, Renaissance, Tome II, Mâcon, 1891, p. 17, n° 47 & 48.
- Catalogue des objets d’art et de haute curiosité antiques, du Moyen-âge & de la Renaissance, composant l’importante et précieuse collection Spitzer. Paris, 17 April -16 June 1893, lots 1747 & 1748, pl. XLV.
- C. Oman. The Golden Age of Hispanic Silver, 1400 - 1665. Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 1968.
We know of several similar salt cellars. The one that probably forms a pair with ours is housed in the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg. Two others were in the Spitzer collection in 1893. One is currently in a private collection in Portugal. For other examples of hexagonal salt cellars, slightly different, see the Maurice Kann collection, lot 283, or Oman, pl. 123, figs. 188 and 189.
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