Old plate, ecclesiastical, decorative, and domestic; its makers and marks (1888)
Buck, J. H. (John Henry), 1849-1914 · New-York, The Gorham Manufacturing Company · leaf 121
95 STANDING SALTS. a sake of gold, supposed to be of an unycorn horn, welle wrought and sett with perles, and the cover with turkasses sent from the King by Mr. Mag- nuSj V. onz. di." The little treatise of 1500, entitled "Ffor to Serve a Lord," directs how the chief salt-cellar should be placed: "… … NO. 23.— CYLINDRICAL SALT (1613) four patterns of old English salt- IMPERIAL TREASURY, MOSCOW. cellars, of which examples have come down to our time. First come the hour-glass salts of the reigns of Henry YII. and Henry VIII., of which some five or six hall-marked specimens are known, besides one…
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