Triple Salt Cellar
Mennecy Factory · c. 1765 · Cleveland Museum of Art
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In 16th-century France, salt was costly and often displayed in exceptionally designed and decorated salt cellars that reinforced wealth and status. Still elegantly designed and ornamented, this triple salt cellar is small, a result of the decreasing decorative and symbolic importance of salt in the latter half of the 1700s. With its floral decoration and whimsical monkey-shaped handle, this object’s design is characteristic of the Rococo style. This triple salt cellar might have held a variety of ingredients including powdered spices, celery or garlic salt.
The museum’s own description, in English. Licence: CC0
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Details
- Maker
- Mennecy Factory (French)
- Date
- c. 1765
- Medium
- Soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration
- Dimensions
- Overall: 7.7 x 10.2 cm (3 1/16 x 4 in.)
- Place of origin
- France
- Held by
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland · Not on view
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
Image: Cleveland Museum of Art, CC0
