With square base, batswing fluting, square-shaped column with medallion, and having unusual nozzle with pierced gallery. Date 1795. Height 12 in. (_In the collection of B. B. Harrison, Esq._) With circular base, column and nozzle fluted, ornamented with bead edging at base, column and nozzle. Date 1770. Height 10 in. (_In the collection of B. B. Harrison, Esq._)] [Illustration: GROUP OF CANDLESTICKS, OLD SHEFFIELD PLATED. Exhibiting types and variation in style for fifty years. _Upper Row_-- =1780.= Broken fluted column. Acanthus leaf decoration, square base, medallion and ribbon ornament. =1790.= Square base, broken fluted column, terminating in Ionic capital. =1795.= Square base, tapering column fluted, surmounted by urn nozzle. _Lower Row_-- =1810.= Circular base, spiral fluting, lobe decoration, urn-shaped nozzle retained. =1820.= Circular base, with bulbous column heavily decorated with floral scrolls. =1830.= Broken circular base, onion-shaped column, bulbous ornament.] IV SALT CELLARS AND MUSTARD POTS THE SALT CELLARS THE PATTERN BOOKS OF SHEFFIELD THE NEW STYLE OF TABLE SALT CELLAR THE MUSTARD POT A BID FOR THE CONTINENTAL TRADE CHAPTER IV SALT CELLARS AND MUSTARD POTS =The salt cellars--The pattern books of Sheffield--The new style of table salt cellar--The mustard pot--A bid for the Continental trade.= There is nothing so ancient and so massive about the salt cellars that Sheffield made as there is in the old styles beloved by the collector of rare silver plate. There are no standing salts in Sheffield plate, such as those treasured at the Universities, or brought out on state occasions at the dinners of the great London Companies. There is nothing in the eighteenth century in silver approaching the grandeur affected by the standing salt and its place of honour at the tables when those who sat above the vessel and those who sat below it were of different status. The trencher salts of a later day were more democratic; they were smaller and they answered the practical purpose of serving salt to the diners. But they had nothing of the stateliness of the great standing salt with its ritual as fixed as that of the loving cup which circulated, although the salt was a permanent fixture. Those who sat below the salt were either the Greek chorus or they were "preposterous shadows lengthening in the noon-tide of one's prosperity." They were poor relations, "a blot on your scutcheon, a rent in your garment, a death's head at your banquet." Charles Lamb touches on the late eighteenth century phase of the dependent below the salt. "He casually looketh in about dinner-time--when the table is full. He offereth to go away seeing you have company--but is induced to stay. He filleth a chair, and your visitor's two children are accommodated at a side-table....