Hexagonal Salt, painted with the Weaknesses of Wise Men

French

National Museum of Scotland

1535 - 1545

Limoges salt depicting Adam and Eve beside the tree of knowledge, Delilah about to cut Samson's hair, Solomon turned to idolatry, Virgil tricked by the Emperor's daughter, Campaspe riding the philosopher Aristotle, and Jael killing the warrior Sisera. Part of a gift to five museums by Richmond Inglis Cochrane through the Art Fund between 1995 and 1997.

• Medium: enamels and gold on copper
• Dimensions: 7 x 9 cm
• ArtFunded in: 1996
• Presented by Richmond Inglis Cochrane Collection through The Art Fund

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