Hat Salt

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Hat Salt

Place of Originprobably United States; possibly Ireland

Date1820-1835

Dimensions2 3/8 × 2 1/2 × 1 5/8 in. (6.1 × 6.3 × 4.2 cm)

Mediumcolorless glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.208

Not on View

DescriptionBlown in a mold (similar to McKearin G.II-13) of three vertical sections and a base plate (uncharted by McKearin) bearing a geometric or stylized floral motif of fifteen petals swirled clockwise around a small circular indentation at the center. Hat brim with inward-folded rim sheared and tooled to shape, then incised. Slightly rough, solid pontil mark.

Published ReferencesReferences to glass classifications established in McKearin, George S., and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948.

McKearin, Helen and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978; etc., G.II-13, p. 251, pl. 88.

Wilson, Kenneth M., American Glass, 1760-1930: The Toledo Museum of Art, New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Toledo Museum of Art, [Lanham, Md.]: National Book Network [distributor], c1994; 2 v. (879 p.): ill. (some col.); 32 cm., 1994, p. 241, no. 302.