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Salt Cellar with Hercules Motifs
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Hexagonal salt cellar with a profile portrait of "LA BELLE DIANIRA" on top and "IE SUIS EV RYSTHÉE" on the bottom. Each side is painted with scenes from the life and labours of Hercules: "HERC VINCIT LEON"; HERCULES ERCHLESEC (scene with bull); CERBERE LID... (Hydra); HERCULES VINCIT CACUS; HERCULES SVIS APELES; LA NATIVITE DE HERCULES"
Department of Paintings Sculpture & Decorative Arts
Mrs. Jessie Isidor Straus gift; to Fogg Art Museum 1957
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Gift of Mrs. Jesse Isidor Straus in memory of her husband Jesse Isidor Straus Class of 1893
Title: Salt Cellar with Hercules Motifs
Description:
Hexagonal salt cellar with a profile portrait of "LA BELLE DIANIRA" on top and "IE SUIS EV RYSTHÉE" on the bottom.
Each side is painted with scenes from the life and labours of Hercules: "HERC VINCIT LEON"; HERCULES ERCHLESEC (scene with bull); CERBERE LID.
(Hydra); HERCULES VINCIT CACUS; HERCULES SVIS APELES; LA NATIVITE DE HERCULES".
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