Salt cellar with Aesop’ Fables, Pierre Raymond (after), c. 1560

Salt cellar with Aesop’ Fables, Pierre Raymond (after), c. 1560

gild, h 8.2cm × d 12.7cm More details

Salt cellars with this round, slender shape were designed in the course of the 1550s. The scenes in the frieze represent the fables written by the Greek storyteller Aesop.