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| Keywords: Joseph Limosin - Salt Cellar - Walters 4433.jpg The shape of the salt cellar with its concave hexagonal body is similar to Walters 44 360 The decoration is as follows Within the receptacle saleron is a scene of Adonis or Meleager shooting an arrow at a boar which bolts towards a wood pursued by two hounds The flat rim is decorated with scrolls and flowers and edged with a line of semi-circles drawn in black on a white ground enclosing rosettes composed of black dots On the body each of the six sides displays a figure of a deity with distinguishing emblems Jupiter in armored breast-plate crowned and holding a scepter standing with his eagle between his legs spreading its wings; Juno turning her profile to the left crowned and holding a long rod entwined with a snake behind her the peacock; Diana accompanied by two hounds running to the right holding a crescent in her left hand and a spear in her right; Mercury stepping to the left holding the caduceus beside him the cock; swaggering Mars brandishing shield and falchion; armored Minerva holding a furled flag and a shield embossed with the head of Medusa at her feet the owl The six figures are united by a continuous landscape of varying shades of green and blue and by a black background powdered with rosettes and tiny stars ca 1625 Renaissance technique painted enamel copper cm 8 9 13 5 accession number 44 33 21618 Henry Walters Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters Enamel Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration New York 1954 Artful Dining The Exhibition The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1994 place of origin Limoges France Walters Art Museum license Limoges painted enamels in the Walters Art Museum Joseph Limosin Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Painted enamel art in the Walters Art Museum Salt cellars Diana Minerva | ||||
