Added by | Iordache Gabriel |
General Description : | Series: Art Objects; The Cellini Salt Cellar (in Vienna called the Saliera) is a part-enamelled gold table sculpture. It depicts a male figure representing the sea and a female figure that represents the earth. A small vessel meant to hold salt is placed next to the male figure. It was modelled and cast by the Italian sculptor and goldsmith Benvenuto Cellini for Francis I of France sometime between 1539 and 1543. |
Face value | 3.50 öS - Austrian schilling |
Catalog code (Michel) | AT 1357 |
Catalog code | Stamp Number AT 892; Yvert et Tellier AT 1186; Stanley Gibbons AT 1607; AFA number AT 1257; ANK AT 1387 |
Series | Obiecte de artă - Austria 1971 |
Place in series | 3 |
Stamp colour | Multicolor |
Stamp use | Commemorative stamp |
Print run | 2.900.000 |
Issue date | 22/03/1971 |
Designer | Adalbert Pilch | Alfred Nefe (E) |
Paper type | Stamp |
Print technique | Photogravure and Recess |
Perforation | comb 14 |
Height | 40.00 mm |
Width | 33.00 mm |
Catalog prices | No catalog prices set yet |