Lot 51
A Tuscan maiolica salt from Montelupo or Pisa, decorated 'a compendiario', probably 1590-1610
Auction: 8 April 2009 at 11:30 BST
£2,250
Description
of square moulded form, with applied moulded female caryatids each with distinctive moulded three feathered head-dresses to each corner, painted in light blue, yellow, orange, and black, painted to the centre 'a compendiario' with a winged grotesque below a black cameo, smaller winged grotesques heads with swags of material, pearls and cameos to the exterior
Dimensions
13cm wide
Footnote
Literature: see A.A.Tait, 'Treasures in Trust', (Edinburgh, 1981), p.76, cat. 58, for a similarly shaped salt from Crathes Castle, Aberdeenshire