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| Keywords: Workshop of Léonard Limosin - Salt Cellar with the Life of Hercules - Walters 44362.jpg Salt cellars are vessels for serving salt an expensive spice during this period as part of a formal dinner setting In the depression for the salt is an idealized image of Deianira Hercules's wife with the inscription reading I am the beautiful Deianira A parallel image of Hercules is on the bottom On the sides are painted scenes from his life Visible here are representations of Hercules strangling the Nemean lion struggling with Achelous a suitor for Deianira in the shape of a bull and killing a creature that while identified as Cerberus the three-headed dog from Hades looks like the Lernean hydra that was described as having many heads each on a long neck 1535 or later Renaissance technique painted enamel copper cm 8 10 1 accession number 44 362 37949 Didier-Petit Collection Sale Paris March 15 1843 and following days lot 122 if this salt is indeed the piece in this sale it had a companion piece lot 121 with the heads of Paris and Tibea in the cavities ie Pyramus and Thisbe Seligmann Bros Paris date and mode of acquisition unknown Henry Walters Baltimore date of acquisition unknown by purchase Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters place of origin Limoges France Walters Art Museum license Limoges painted enamels in the Walters Art Museum Léonard Limosin 16th-century way of life preserved artefacts Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs artist review Painted enamel art in the Walters Art Museum Life of Heracles Deianira Heracles as a child Capture of Cerberus | ||||
