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Article: The founder's salt at All Souls College: the recent repair and conservation of this celebrated and unique masterpiece of medieval goldsmith's work has allowed Claude Blair and Marian Campbell to conduct the first detailed investigation into its date, origins and meaning.(Cover Story)
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- May 1, 2005
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The so-called 'Giant' or 'Huntsman' salt at All Souls College, Oxford, is famous amongst people interested in early English goldsmiths' work (Fig. 2). Made of silver-gilt in the form of a bearded man supporting a crystal salt-container on his head, it is mentioned in most general works on the history of English silver, and has been displayed in a number of loan exhibitions, most recently in 'A Treasured Inheritance: 600 Years of Oxford Silver' at the Ashmolean Museum, and illustrations of it have been published many times. (1) Despite this fame, and its obvious importance as a unique survival of a major type of medieval salt otherwise recorded only in documents, no ...
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