Salt-cellar, anonymous, 1618 The basement of the triangular salt barrel rests on three cast, s-volute-shaped legs, decorated with pearls and curling leaves and ending in eagle heads crowned by volutes. The basement is made up of a narrow, flat lower edge; a wide, rejuvenating, s-shaped vaulted edge decorated with a stamped, repeating pattern of rolling work with stylized leaf motifs; A constricted edge decorated with a stamped, repeating pattern of Cabochons; a rejuvenating overhanging edge with a stamped decoration of scales; A narrow constricted edge and the overhanging curved top. This is d
Salt-cellar, anonymous, 1618 The basement of the triangular salt barrel rests on three cast, s-volute-shaped legs, decorated with pearls and curling leaves and ending in eagle heads crowned by volutes. The basement is made up of a narrow, flat lower edge; a wide, rejuvenating, s-shaped vaulted edge decorated with a stamped, repeating pattern of rolling work with stylized leaf motifs; A constricted edge decorated with a stamped, repeating pattern of Cabochons; a rejuvenating overhanging edge with a stamped decoration of scales; A narrow constricted edge and the overhanging curved top. This is driven around a central rosette with three grotesque masks in the corners. A second, gilded rosette is attached to the central rosette, which carries a ball. On it is a cast, also gold -plated, naked woman kneeling at an anchor, the hands folded, who symbolize hope. Volute -shaped supports rest on the three corners. They stand with lion legs on balls, end in winged chimaeren and show in the middle lion heads, which hold gilded rings with pear -shaped decorations. The supports wear the top, which is made up of a border with a pearl list; a constricted edge and a widening, s-shaped curved edge, both with the same stamped decoration as their counterparts on the base; a rejuvenating, overhanging edge, with a stamped decoration of scales; A narrow constricted edge and the overhanging curved top. This contains the round, deepened gilded barrel in the three corners of Putti in the middle. The lower edge of the top jumps into the middle of each side; There is always a gilt, decorative element that is built up from smaller bulbs. A gilded ring is attached to the center of the bottom of the barrel to which a also gilded canopy hangs above the figure of hope. C-Volute-shaped supports are placed on the three corners of the top, each with a bearded men's head resting on a ball and ending in a ramskop, with a serrated inside on which the attachment fits. This is made up of a narrow flat lower
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