Silver salt cellar with a figure of a hippocampus

Ludwik Nast1843

Cracow Saltworks Museum in Wieliczka
Wieliczka, Poland

A theme popular in the 1830s in Warsaw: the figure of the mythical hippocampus, i.e. the winged sea horse. In salt cellars, you can often see dolphins and shells as forms associated with the sea from which the salt came

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Title: Silver salt cellar with a figure of a hippocampus
Creator: Ludwik Nast
Date Created: 1843
Location Created: Warsaw, Poland

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