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Two salt-cellars, one with Cain and Abel, and one with the Sacrifice of Isaac
Also titled Twee zoutvaten met Kaïn en Abel, en het offer van Abraham
Adam van Vianen (I) (Utrecht, 1568–1627)
1620
- Medium
- silver (metal)
- Classification
- salt (condiment vessel)
- Dimensions
- diameter 13 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Adult profiles and older: its museum's description or title mentions violence, death or gore. How works are placed
About this work
These two silver sculptures are actually salt-cellars. Each depicts an Old Testament scene with a figure threatening another. One presents Cain killing his brother out of envy, and the other Abraham obeying God’s command to sacrifice his son Isaac.
