[Sca-cooks] Nef revisited

[Laura C. Minnick]

At 12:03 PM 3/10/2004, you wrote:

>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".

The name is Cellini, Benevento Cellini. And I have most frequently seen 
'nef' as referring to a ship-shaped salt cellar, but also as a repository 
for small dishes and silverware.

Where I can't tell you at the moment- my brain is occupied elsewhere and I 
haven't enough memory to access the infomation ;-)

'Lainie
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