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Salt

Place of Originprobably Europe
Date1760-1800
Dimensions2 15/16 × 2 1/2 × 2 3/16 in. (7.4 × 6.3 × 5.6 cm)
Mediumcolorless non-lead glass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1917.253
Not on View
DescriptionColorless non-lead glass with small, dark inclusions. Similar to 1917.262, except that the bowl has six rows of complete diamonds, fourteen to a row, and the foot is plain circular, not scalloped.
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. 1318.
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