ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD SALTCELLAR
Changed (through influence of cellar) from C15 salt saler; saler from Old French saliere container for salt, from Latin salārius belonging to salt, from sal salt.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SALTCELLAR»
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Primary Comprehension: Literal - Inferential - Applied
The trick: You announce to your audience that you are going to use a saltcellar to
push a coin through a table. You cover the saltcellar with a serviette and say
some magic words ... what happened? It's not the coin that has gone through the
...
R.I.C. Publications, 2005
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The Human Record: To 1700
The first item is an ivory carving crafted in the sixteenth or early seventeenth
century and usually identified as a salario, or saltcellar. It depicts two Portuguese
officials, flanked by two assistants. Above them is a Portuguese ship, with a man
...
Alfred J. Andrea, James H. Overfield, 2001
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Debris from a Public Dining Place in the Athenian Agora
Saltcellar: echinus Fig. 16, Pi. 51 wall, recessed bottom H. 3.1; Diam. 6.1, of base
2.9. About one-third of wall missing. Recessed underside, reserved with glazed
circle and dot. Light wall, incurved rim. Shiny brown glaze with black streaks and
...
Susan I. Rotroff, John Howard Oakley, 1992
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High Value Manufacturing: Advanced Research in Virtual and ...
Saltcellar with metallic cap. Figure 7. Graph of function of the saltcellar with
screwtop. text in tables, captions and references (10 pt on 11 pt). All line spacing
is exact. Never add any space between lines or paragraphs. When a column has
...
Paulo Jorge da Silva Bartolo, Ana Cristina Soares de Lemos, Antonio Mario Henriques Pereira, 2013
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Hands-On History: Middle Ages
Saltcellar. Salt was a valuable commodity in the Middle Ages. Because there was
no refrigeration, food could spoil easily. Salt was used to preserve meat and fish.
It also helped to disguise the taste if the food started to go bad. In the Middle ...
Susan Kapuscinski Gaylord, 2002
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An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the collection of ...
Saltcellar, of silver, with the Augsburg mint-mark. 2. Saltcellar, of silver, supported
on open scroll-work. Like the former it has three receptacles, between which
stands a figure holding a socket, probably for an implement by which the salt
might ...
Frederick William Fairholt, 1860
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An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the collection of ...
Saltcellar, of silver, with the Augsburg mint-mark. 2. Saltcellar, of silver, supported
on open scroll-work. Like the former it has three receptacles, between which
stands a figure holding a socket, probably for an implement by which the salt
might ...
Ursula Lucy Grace Denison (baroness Londesborough, Lady Otho Fitzgerald.), Baron Albert Denison Londesborough, Frederick William Fairholt, 1860
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History of Art: The Western Tradition
The saltcellar reflects the cosmic significance of the Medici tombs (compare fig.
13-22). But on this miniature scale Cellini's program turns into playful fancy on
the same order as Vasari's Perseus and Andromeda (see fig. 14-7). Cellini wants
to ...
Horst Woldemar Janson, Anthony F. Janson, 2004
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The Robert Lehman Collection: Decorative arts. XV
XV Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Wolfram Koeppe, Clare Le
Corbeiller, William Rieder, Charles Truman, Suzanne G. Valenstein, Clare
Vincent. known Saint-Porchaire works. A second original feature of the saltcellar
is the ...
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Wolfram Koeppe, Clare Le Corbeiller, 2012
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Marks and Monograms on Pottery and Porcelain: With ...
Bought by M. Thor£, in 1798, for coo 72 Saltcellar Baron Alph. de Rothschild 33
Jug or canctte ... »» i> ii Bought by Strauss for £600, sold for Preaux Sale, 1850 .
800 1000 4« Candlestick Baron Gust, de Rothschild ifi coo 7T Tazza Baron Jas.
