Salt

Place of Originprobably England

Date1760-1790

Dimensions2 15/16 × 2 3/8 × 2 1/4 in. (7.4 × 6 × 5.7 cm)

Mediumcolorless lead glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.251

Not on View

DescriptionDouble-ogee bowl blown in a part-size mold patterned with three rows of ten diamonds, top row incomplete and bottom row elongated, above a solid, vertically ribbed knop joining the bowl to a sloping, circular foot tooled from an applied gather. Rough, solid pontil mark.

Published ReferencesWilson, 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. 780, no. 1316.