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Footed Salt

ManufacturerProbably New Bremen Glass Manufactory of John Frederick Amelung (American, 1784-1795)

Place of OriginUrbana, Maryland, United States

Date1785-1795

Dimensions2 11/16 × 2 1/8 × 2 1/2 in. (6.9 × 5.4 × 6.4 cm)

Mediumcolorless non-lead glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.252

On View

Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion (2444 Monroe Street), Glass Pavilion Gallery, 3

DescriptionColorless non-lead glass with a greenish tinge. Blown, probably in a two-piece part-size mold patterned with four rows of seven checkered diamonds and one row of half-checkered diamonds just below the rim, joined by a short, solid stem drawn from the same gather of glass to the applied tooled, slightly sloping foot. Rough, solid pontil mark.

Published ReferencesMcKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, NY, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, p. 89, pl. 32, nos. 4, 5.

McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass, Garden City, NY, Doubleday, 1950; rev. ed., 1966, p. 20, pl. 2, no. 6.

Lanmon, Dwight P., and Arlene M. Palmer, "John Frederick Amelung and the New Bremen Glassmanufactory," Journal of Glass Studies vol. 28, 1976, pp. 14-136.

rev. ed. in John Frederick Amelung: Early American Glassmaker, Corning, N.Y., and London, Corning Museum of Glass Press and Associated University Presses, 1990, pp. 13-145, pp. 118-119, fig. 47.

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. 68, no. 4.