Two Salt-Cellars, Two salt-cellars, Salt barrel whose shell is being carried seated on a dolphin by a boy, The salt vessels (A and B) are made up of a cast pedestal and trunk and a driven bowl. The triangular, high-rising gilt pedestal is completely decorated with whimsical, soft ornaments, including open-mouthed mouths. These are particularly visible at the base of the legs, the underside of which is designed as a stylized frog. The trunk has the shape of a boy sitting on a dolphin with a tail turned up and falling over one of the child's shoulders. At A, the boy supports the scale with his raised right hand, while holding a shell in the left hand. With B he supports the bowl with his left hand, while holding a coral branch in the right. The head of both children is adorned with foliage. The oval, deepened gold-plated bowl has a wide, slightly convex rim that is decorated with whimsical ornaments, including folds from which molluscs protrude. The deepened part is divided into two halves by means of curved lines and is reminiscent of an open shell. One short side is high and looks like the open mouth of a sea monster, ornament derived from animal forms, scallop, shell, ornament, dolphin, coelenterata: coral, cupids: 'amores', 'amoretti', 'putti', Johannes Lutma (1584-1669), 1639, silver (metal), gilding (material), gilding, h 24.0 cm × d 12.0 cm × w 802 gr
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