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Salt

Place of Originprobably England

Date1760-1790

Dimensions2 15/16 × 2 3/8 × 2 1/16 in. (7.5 × 6.1 × 5.3 cm)

Mediumcolorless lead glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.255

On View

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

DescriptionDouble-ogee bowl blown in a part-size mold, probably of two pieces, patterned with seven rows of twenty-four small diamonds, the top and bottom rows distorted by manufacture. Joined by a solid band of vertical ribs drawn out from the bottom of the bowl to an applied and tooled, slightly sloping, circular foot. Rough, solid pontil mark on the almost flat base.

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. 781, no. 1319.