{"id":4235,"date":"2022-08-31T17:08:12","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T15:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/2022\/08\/31\/a-pretty-expenive-salt-cellar\/"},"modified":"2022-08-31T17:08:12","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T15:08:12","slug":"a-pretty-expenive-salt-cellar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/2022\/08\/31\/a-pretty-expenive-salt-cellar\/","title":{"rendered":"A pretty expenive Salt Cellar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text text_larger=&#8221;no&#8221;]The most valuable tableware article ever?<br \/>\nA<em> salt cellar<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p>Well, perhaps it is more appropriate to speak of <em>sculpture<\/em>, despite the small containers for salt and pepper make it a <em>functional<\/em> salt cellar for all practical purposes.<\/p>\n<p>Designed and created by the Italian artist <em>Benvenuto Cellini<\/em> for the King of France Francis I, it is mostly made of ebony, gold and ivory.<\/p>\n<p>The two sculpted characters represent the goddess <em>Ceres<\/em> (holding a Cornucopia, symbol of abundance) and <em>Neptune<\/em> (with his inseparable pitchfork).<\/p>\n<p>The goddess of the earth crosses her legs with the god of the seas, and salt is produced from their union.<\/p>\n<p>Other secondary figures appear under the two gods: the <em>Aurora<\/em> (goddess of dawn), the <em>Day<\/em>, the <em>Twilight<\/em> and the <em>Night<\/em>. And four busts of young people representing the winds.<\/p>\n<p>All adorned with lilies, symbols of the crown of France.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to admire this beauty, you can go to the <em>Kunsthistorisches Museum<\/em> in Vienna (Austria).<\/p>\n<p>If you want to buy some kitchenware, I&#8217;m sorry but I don&#8217;t sell any.<\/p>\n<p>Still I can provide you with <strong>catering equipment<\/strong> which is works of art![\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text text_larger=&#8221;no&#8221;]The most valuable tableware article ever? A salt cellar! Well, perhaps it is more appropriate to speak of sculpture,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}