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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

Collections

Glass

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.