!!!Cellini-Salzfass

Cellini salt-cellar, the only still existing fully authenticated goldsmith's work by Benvenuto Cellini (b. Florence, around 1500, 
d. Florence, 1571), late Renaissance style, 1540-1543 made for Francis 
I of France, given by Charles IX to Archduke  Ferdinand II (of 
Tyrol) and so came into the possession of Habsburgs. Today in the 
Vienna Museum of Art History.

!Literature
A. Prater, C. Salzfass fuer Franz I, 1988.



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