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Salt-cellar
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This object has been identified by Myra Sl3nbury as a salt-cellar. Similar examples have been noted in 17th-century Netherlandish still-life paintings. It does not seem to belong to the bed-post-ewer grouP. nor the ·candelabra·. It is possibly a personal item.
Figure 64. A triangular salt-cellar.
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