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Salt Cellar

ManufacturerPossibly Brooklyn Flint Glass Works (American, 1823-1868)

ManufacturerPossibly Jersey Glass Works (American, 1824-about 1860)

ManufacturerPossibly New England Glass Company (American, 1818-1888)

Place of OriginSandwich, Massachusetts, United States

Date1829-1835

Dimensions1 7/8 × 2 15/16 × 2 1/8 in. (4.8 × 7.4 × 5.4 cm)
2 1/2 × 1 13/16 in. (6.3 × 4.6 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.575

Not on View

DescriptionPressed by a bench press, probably upright, in a female mold of four vertical sections, bearing the pattern of thirteen stars and a spread eagle with shield on breast on the sides and a tree in full leaf on the ends, with a base plate bearing an indented sixteen-pointed star, by a plain male plunger. Colorless glass.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Web, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, Mass., author, 1947, p. 259, pl. 70, no. 2.

McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, p. 368, pl. 165, no. 6.

Rogers, Millard F., Jr., "Stylistic Influences on Nineteenth-Century American Glass," Antiques, vol. 78, July 1960, pp. 57-59 (Reprint 2, pp. 26-28), repr. p. 58, top.

Neal, L. W. and D. B. Neal, Pressed Glass Salt Dishes of the Lacy Period, 1825-1850, Philadelphia, authors, 1962, p. 75, no. EE 1a.

Barlow, Raymond E. and Joan E. Kaiser, The Glass Industry in Sandwich, ed. Lloyd C. Nickerson, 3 vols., Windham, N.H., authors, vol. 1, 1993, repr. p. 283, no. 1452.

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. 297, no. 335.