2-970-779 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Regalia. - 5', c1911. '1. Salt-spoon; 2. and 3. State Salt-cellars; 4. Sacramental Flagon; 5. State Salt-cellar'. 'The Golden Salt-cellar of State [is] of pure gold, richly adorned with jewels, and grotesque figures in chased-work. Its form is castellated, and it has hence been called a "model of the White Tower", to which, however, it bears a very slight resemblance: the receptacles for the salt are formed by the removal of the tops of the turrets'. From "The Portrait Book of Our Kings and Queens 1066-1911", edited by T. Leman Hare. [T. C. & E. C. Jack, London & Edinburgh]