Rijksmuseum

Salt cellar with Aesop’ Fables

Date: c. 1560
Medium: copper (metal)
Institution: Rijksmuseum

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.

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