[Sca-cooks] Nef revisited

[Alex Clark]

At 12:24 PM 3/10/2004 -0800, 'Lainie wrote:
>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 ;-)

Benvenuto?

Henry of Maldon/Alex Clark