About This Artwork

Netherlands

Salt, 1575/1600

Silver gilt
10.3 x 21.4 x 21.4 cm (4 1/16 x 8 7/16 x 8 7/16 in.)
Gift of Mrs. Stanley Keith, 1944.781

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Berlin, Ausstellung von kunstwerken des Mittelalters und der Renaissance aus Berliner privatbesitz veranstaltet von der kunstgeschichtlichen gesellschaft, 20 May – 3 July 1898.

Worcester Art Museum, The Virtuoso Craftsman: Northern European Design in the Sixteenth Century, 27 March – 25 May 1969, cat. 67.

Art Institute of Chicago, The Artist Looks at the Landscape, 22 June – 25 August 1974.

San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, The Triumph of Humanism, 22 October 1977 – 8 January 1978, cat. 80.

Art Institute of Chicago, Renaissance Decorative Arts from Chicago Collections, 2 March – 14 June 1987, cat. 35.

Ownership History

Georg Reichenheim, before 1898 [see Berlin 1898 exh. cat.]. Margarete Oppenheim, Berlin, before 1936; sold, Julius Böhler, Munich, 22 May 1936, no. 182. William Randolph Hearst, New York and San Simeon, by 1944 [Brummer index card N6052 in the Cloisters Library and Archives, New York]; Sold to Joseph Brummer, New York, 14 December 1944 [see source cited above]; Sold by Joseph Brummer, New York, to the Art Institute, 1944, for $1,600.