[Sca-cooks] Nef revisited

[Elaine Koogler]

OK, so where did I get the idea that it was a salt cellar? A boat-shaped 
salt cellar. I seem to recall a golden one by one of the Italian 
Renaissance master goldsmiths...lost the name...old age strikes again. 
And I thought I had seen it referred to as a "nef".

Kiri

Jeff Gedney wrote

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>Nef is an old term for a type of boat, originally referring a largish sort of Knarr or "Halfskip" (which was a double ended sort of canoe shape, about 2.5 to 3 times as long as wide, and used by Northern European travellers and traders for exploration adn cargo).  
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>"Nef" as a term seems to have been used mostly in the French contexts, so it is quite likely that this usage originally referred in some way to the shape of the basket. 
>It was probably a pointed oval or boat shape, deep and wide,  narrowing at the ends. 
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>There is also an eccelsiastical boat shaped incense burner that was also called a Nef. 
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>Brandu
>(AKA-SCA) Capt. Elias Gedney
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