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Cellini-Salzfass
© Copyright Cellini salt-cellar, 1540-1543 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. 
© Copyright Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1571), engraving Literature: A. Prater, C. Salzfaß für Franz I, 1988.
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