Footed Salt

Image Not Available

Expand

IIIFView PDF

Footed Salt

Place of Originprobably Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania or Wheeling, West Virginia, United States

Date1810-1830

Dimensions3 1/4 × 2 1/2 × 2 3/16 in. (8.3 × 6.4 × 5.5 cm)

Mediumcolorless lead glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.250

Not on View

DescriptionDouble-ogee bowl blown in a one-piece dip mold patterned with sixteen vertical ribs. Removed and twisted to the right. Joined to the foot by a solid ribbed knop drawn from the same gather. Sloping circular, slightly concave foot tooled from an applied gather. Rough, solid pontil mark with a small black iron oxide deposit at the center.

Published ReferencesMcKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, p. 54, pl. 23, no. 6.

McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass, Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1950; rev. ed., 1966, p. 36, pl. 3, no. 6 (closely related salts).

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. 192, no. 173.