Salt cellar

[1][2] Salt cellars can be either lidded or open, and are found in a wide range of sizes, from large shared vessels to small individual dishes.

Styles range from simple to ornate or whimsical, using materials including glass and ceramic, metals, ivory and wood, and plastic.

[citation needed] Salt cellars were an early collectible as pieces of silver, pewter, glass, etc.

Greek artifacts from the classical period in the shape of small bowls are often called salt cellars.

[9] Large, ornate master salts continued to be made through the Renaissance and Baroque periods, becoming more ceremonial.

[13] From about 1825 pressed glass manufacture became an industry and thrived; because they were easy to mold, salt cellars were among the earliest items mass-produced by this method.

Whether because of their commonness (and hence affordability), or the wide variety of them, or because of their slide into anachronism and quaintness,[20] salt cellars themselves became collectible at latest by the 1930s.

[citation needed] The Cracow Saltworks Museum in Wieliczka, Poland, has a large collection of salt cellars.

It contains over 1000 objects made of: porcelain, gold, silver, glass, wood, bone, quartz and mother-of-pearl.