Italian Renaissance Patinated-Bronze Salt Cellar or Inkwell
Late 16th/early 17th century or later
In the form of a youth with a sash bearing a coat of arms at his right side, possibly the arms of the Prato family, holding a trident astride a sea monster with an open mouth, on a later Portor marble rectangular base, inscribed in red on the reverse with the inventory number 425/27 (the label possibly incomplete), the underside with a paper label with the typed inventory number TL 5.87 / 1960 / Thacher. Height 10 1/2 inches (26.7cm), width 9 inches 22.8cm).
The underside not examined, value pending inspection.

Provenance:
Barons Alphonse and Nathaniel de Rothschild, Vienna
Thacher Collection (the label possibly incomplete)
Rosenberg and Stiebel

Cf. a related example, circa 1590, attributed to Taddeo Landrini in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, acc. no. BK-15396.

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