Salt Cellar

c. 1530

Attributed to the Milan Marsyas Painter
(Italian, active about 1525-1535)

Status: On View, Gallery 238
Department: Applied Arts of Europe

Artist: the Milan Marsyas Painter
Title: Salt Cellar
Place: Urbino (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1525–1535
Medium: Tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)
Dimensions: 6.2 × 17.8 × 16.5 cm (2 7/8 × 7 × 6 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Elizabeth R. Vaughn Fund
Reference Number: 1964.140
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Greta Kaucher, Le peintre du Marsyas de Milan. La majolique historiée à Urbino en 1530 (Paris: Feu et Talent, 2024), 133, no. 12.
J.V.G. Mallet, Xanto: Pottery-Painter, Poet, Man of the Italian Renaissance, exh. cat. (London: The Wallace Collection, 2007), 122, no. 37.
Dora Thornton and Timothy Wilson, Italian Renaissance Ceramics, A Catalogue of the British Museum oollection, vol. 1 (London: 2009), 275, no. 162.
Julia Catherine Triolo, The Armorial Maiolica of Francesco Xanto Avelli (Ph.D. thesis, The Pennsylvania State University, 1996), 278.
Timothy Wilson, Italian Maiolica of the Renaissance (Milan: 1996), 188, 191.

Edward R. Lubin, Inc, New York, by 1964; sold to the Art Institute, 1964.

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