Salt Cellars

[helwen]

I've of course been looking for pictures of salt cellars along with everything else... I have one of my own somewhere -- time to dig it out and use it!

The funny thing was finding a pic of a low cellar (little/no foot, for lower status folks), and realizing that all the cellars that Octavia and I made for a Bergental-hosted RP event years ago were actually not too far off... not the prettiest things, but neither is the extant one. I don't do fancy 3-D work in anything besides ceramics for the most part, so I also made a dragon and a swan for the new king and queen out of clay, who seemed to like them :) The padded pouches I made for them were pretty loud -- I'd gotten this shiny but durable fabric because that way I could have each person's heraldic colors.

I tried different words, including "nef". "Nef" is not a useful word when doing a search, either in an internet search engine or on eBay. Lots of organizations have the initials "N E F", and apparently it means something to people who use rifles too.

Some cellars are simple, some complex, some open, some closed. The ones in illuminations tend to be somewhat simpler in appearance, compared to say, the one made by Benvenuto Cellini -- which was stolen a few years ago & recovered just this past Jan. There were some really cool ones from Africa, sold to people in Europe. I plan on looking at the flea market for cellars and things that could be used as such.

Here are some pages with pictures of fancy cellars:
http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/viewOne.asp?dep=7&viewmode=0&item=1983.434
(ship)

http://www.interpol.int/Public/News/2006/newssaltCellar20060123.asp
(Cellini. Cellar bowl is visible just past their knees)

http://www.untoldlondon.org.uk/news/ART28104.html (3rd image down on the page)

http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/features/mccormick/mccormick8-12-05_detail.asp?picnum=3

http://artandarchitecture.org.uk/images/gallery/19176990.html (ceramic but fancy - has heraldry on it)

Comments

[ellid.livejournal.com]

They found the Cellini one? Cool! I saw it once long ago, and it's much smaller than one would think. Also, if you look *very* closely, you can see a couple of join lines in the bowl itself. It made Cellini a bit more human.