Two specialist exhibitions.(Report from Europe)(Brief article)

From time to time, museums mount exhibitions that are extremely specialized. Two such shows are on view at the moment. The first, called Pungent Silver: The Gift of Albert and Cecile Maesen, is at the Zilvermuseum Sterckshof in Antwerp and showcases the Maesen collection of silver related to savory food. Recently donated to the museum, the collection includes mustard pots and spoons, saltcellars, and various utensils such as asparagus tongs, marrow spoons, and nutmeg graters. The more than two hundred such objects in the show were made in Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Germany, the United Kingdom, Austria, and Poland, mainly in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth ...