salt-cellar

So that at present, and for a very long time now, the only evidence of our artist's prowess is this salt-cellar.

Cellini's Salt Cellar James Greer 2011

We invite you now to look at the salt-cellar, sole remaining example of the goldsmithing genius of Benvenuto Cellini.

Cellini's Salt Cellar James Greer 2011

From his possession the salt-cellar passed to King Charles IX and then to Archduke Ferdinand, an Austrian, which is how in due course the piece ended up at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, KK Inv.

Cellini's Salt Cellar James Greer 2011

This language was rather more than I could bear, even from an angel; so, plucking up courage, I seized a salt-cellar which lay within reach, and hurled it at the head of the intruder.

Archive 2008-12-01 2008

At meals in the Legation canteen, when conversation was unavoidable, they stuck to the stock phrases of official terminology, which, in the familiar atmosphere, appeared grotesque and rather uneasy; it was as though, between requests for salt-cellar and mustard-pot, they called out to each other the catch-words of the latest Congress manifesto.

Autumn Thomas Plastino Martin 2010

And one of the most magnificent things he ever made was a salt-cellar, a saliera.

OMG, how did I miss this?! | Diane Duane's weblog: "Out of Ambit" 2006

Beside this flagon he placed a salt-cellar of silver, handsomely wrought, containing salt of exquisite whiteness, with pepper and other spices.

Redgauntlet 2008

The Eastern use of salt is a curious contrast with that of Westerns, who made it an invidious and inhospitable distinction, e.g., to sit above the salt-cellar and below the salt.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

The fifteenth century vocabulary notices the salt-cellar, the spoon, the trencher, and the table-cloth.

Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine 2006

Beneath the salt-cellar (a massive piece of plate which occupied the midst of the table) sate the sine nomine turba, men whose vanity was gratified by holding even this subordinate space at the social board, while the distinction observed in ranking them was a salve to the pride of their superiors.

The Black Dwarf 2004