Two salt-cellars with satyrs
Also titled Twee zoutvaten met saterfiguren
Adam van Vianen (I) (Utrecht, 1568–1627)
1621
- Medium
- silver (metal)
- Classification
- salt (condiment vessel)
- Dimensions
- diameter 11.5 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 nudity. How works are placed
About this work
Throughout the ages, salt was treated with respect: it was expensive and was ascribed curative properties. Salt-cellars were thus often ornate works of art fashioned from costly materials. These salts have a basic triangular shape. Each corner consists of a satyr or faun, a mythological creature with a human body and the legs, ears and horns of a goat.
