Benvenuto cellini salt cellar

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The Cellini Salt Cellar (in Vienna called the Saliera, Italian for salt cellar) is a part-enamelled gold table sculpture by Benvenuto Cellini (c.1500-1571).
benvenuto cellini salt cellar

Saliera in english

Learn about the famous salt cellar by the Florentine sculptor and goldsmith, Benvenuto Cellini, commissioned by French king Francis I. Discover its iconograph.

Monument to benvenuto cellini

The only extant work in gold by this Florentine artist already famous during his lifetime, Cellini’s masterpiece is far more than a precious salt and pepper cellar.
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The Cellini Salt Cellar (in Vienna called the Saliera, Italian for salt cellar) is a part-enamelled gold table sculpture by Benvenuto Cellini (c).