A BRONZE SALT CELLAR IN THE FORM OF A TRITON HOLDING A SEASHELL
A BRONZE SALT CELLAR IN THE FORM OF A TRITON HOLDING A SEASHELL
A BRONZE SALT CELLAR IN THE FORM OF A TRITON HOLDING A SEASHELL
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A BRONZE SALT CELLAR IN THE FORM OF A TRITON HOLDING A SEASHELL

ITALIAN, 17TH CENTURY

Details
A BRONZE SALT CELLAR IN THE FORM OF A TRITON HOLDING A SEASHELL
ITALIAN, 17TH CENTURY
depicted seated on a tortoise; on an integrally cast oval base representing the sea
6 ½ in. (16.5 cm.) high
Provenance
Alain Moatti, Paris,
Acquired from the above by the Blaquier-Arrieta Family.
Literature
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Burlington Fine Arts Club, Illustrated Catalogue of Italian Sculpture and other Plastic Art of the Renaissance, 1912, p. 57.
W. Bode, Die Italienischen Bildwerke der Renaissance und des Barock: Zweiter Band, Bonzestatuetten, Berlin, 1930, p. 52, no. 256, pl. 75.
The Detroit Institute of Arts, Decorative Arts of the Italian Renaissance 1400-1600, exh. cat., Nov. 18, 1958 - Jan. 4, 1959, pp. 109 and 125, no. 267.
Y. Hackenbroch, Bronzes, Other Metalwork and Sculpture in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, London, 1962, p. XXX and pl. 63.
W. Bode, The Italian Bronze Statuettes of the Renaissance, rev. ed. by J. Draper, New York, 1980, p. 58, pl. CLXXI.

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