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Salt cellars are known, in various forms, by assorted names including open salt, salt dip, standing salt, master salt, and salt dish. A master salt is the large receptacle from which the smaller, distributed, salt dishes are filled; according to fashion or custom it was lidded, or open, or covered with a cloth.
The Saliera. The Cellini Salt Cellar (in Vienna called the Saliera, Italian for salt cellar) is a part-enamelled gold table sculpture by Benvenuto Cellini (c.1500-1571). It was completed in 1543 for Francis I of France (r.1515-1547), from silver plate models that had been prepared many years earlier for Cardinal Ippolito d'Este (c.1479-1520).
The lidded salt cellar dates to either the late 15th century or the 16th century. The work is made from carved ivory and bone, and was used to hold salt. Three snakes, a symbol of wealth among the Sapi, decorate the container, while four snarling dogs are seen to be confronting the snakes.
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Salt and pepper shakers, along with a sugar dispenser Georgian silver pepper shaker, or pepperette, hallmarked London 1803. Salt and pepper shakers or salt and pepper pots, of which the first item can also be called a salt cellar in British English, [1] are condiment dispensers used in European cuisine that are designed to allow diners to distribute grains of edible salt and ground peppercorns.
Right view of ivory salt cellar. The kingdom of Benin existed in the southwestern region of Nigeria in modern Edo state, Nigeria.According to scholars the kingdom of Benin (also known as the Edo Kingdom, or the Benin Empire) originated around the year 900 by the Ogiso kings, it is said between the eleventh and the thirteenth a member from the Oba dynasty would take control of the state. [6]