Footed Salt

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Footed Salt

Place of OriginEastern United States

Date1820-1840

Dimensions2 3/16 × 2 1/16 × 3 1/16 in. (5.5 × 5.2 × 7.7 cm)

Mediumcolorless glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.246

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DescriptionBlown in a mold (probably McKearin G.II-21) for a hat salt of three vertical sections and a base plate (McKearin Diamond Type VII). Rim sheared and tooled to shape. Rough, open pontil mark with a black iron oxide deposit in center.

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-21, p. 251, pl. 88; p. 261, pl. 100, no. 11; p. 323.

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. 240, no. 299.