Salt Cellar with Hercules Motifs
c. 1550
Artists
Description
Hexagonal salt cellar with a profile portrait of "LA BELLE DIANIRA" on bottom and "HERCULES" on the top. Each side is painted with scenes from the life and labours of Hercules: "HERC V:ANTEE (with dragon)"; HERCULES (Atlas figure); LE RAVICEMA N D E DIANIRA (Rape of Dianira); HERCULES (surrounded by flames with a temple in the distance); HERCULES VINCCIT PILOTVS; and H:V CERCBERE CANE"
Dimensions
sight: 7 x 8.6 x 7.6 cm (2 3/4 x 3 3/8 x 3 in.)
Provenance
Mrs. Jessie Isidor Straus, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1957
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