print; ornament print

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Object Type: print; ornament print
Museum number: 1875,0612.30
Description: Two designs for saltcellars: left design with base formed by entwined naked bodies, and top decorated with Cybele lying among animals and breast-feeding a baby; right design with base formed by sphinxes, pearls and male figures blowing into conchs, and top representing Neptune lying on a shell. c. 1550/60 Engraving
Producer name: Attributed to: René Boyvin; Attributed to: Pierre Milan; After: Léonard Thiry (?); After: Rosso Fiorentino (?)
School/style
Production date: 1550-1560
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 132 millimetres (trimmed); Width: 169 millimetres
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Curator's comments: From a set of nine representing designs for various objects in metalwork, and attributed to either Boyvin or Milan after designs by Rosso Fiorentino or Thiry, see 1887-10-10-14-6 for comment.; It has been suggested that the object on the left is in fact for holding pepper. (James Grantham Turner via email on 14 March 2016).
Bibliographic references: Robert-Dumesnil 1835-71 / Le Peintre-Graveur Français (VIII.77.173); Berlin 1939 / Katalog der Ornamentstichsammlung der Staatlichen Kunstbibliothek Berlin (1040)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: metalwork; classical deity
Associated names: Representation of: Cybele; Representation of: Poseidon/Neptune
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Émile Galichon; Purchased through: Hôtel Drouot (Paris, 10-14.v.1875/); Purchased through: Alphonse Wyatt Thibaudeau
Acquisition date: 1875
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1875,0612.30

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