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Salt cellar with Aesop’ Fables
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Salt cellar with Aesop’ Fables

c. 1560 · gild; emailleren; copper (metal); email

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

About this work

Salt cellars with this round, slender shape were designed in the course of the 1550s. The scenes in the frieze represent the fables written by the Greek storyteller Aesop.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Subjects
salt (condiment vessel)
Credit lineSalt cellar with Aesop’ Fables. c. 1560. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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