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Salt

ManufacturerProbably Boston and Sandwich Glass Works (American, 1826-1888)

Place of OriginSandwich, Massachusetts, United States

Date1830-1845

Dimensions1 5/8 × 2 3/4 × 2 1/16 in. (4.1 × 7 × 5.2 cm)
2 7/16 × 1 9/16 in. (6.3 × 4 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.577

Not on View

DescriptionThe shear mark on the underside of the base indicates that this salt apparently was pressed upside down, probably in a bench press, over a plain male mold that formed the interior and the inside of the sloping rim, in conjunction with a female mold of four vertical sections that opened at the corners, bearing the pattern and exterior edges of the rim and the flat horizontal band above the feet, by a male plunger that formed the base, patterned on the underside with a rayed design, and the four short cylindrical feet. Colorless glass.

Published ReferencesMcKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, pp. 370-371, pl. 169, no. 4.

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. 59.

Neal, L.W., Pressed Glass Salt Dishes of the Lacy Period, 1825-1850, Philadelphia authors, 1962, p. 90, no. GA 2.

Spillman, Jane S., American and European Pressed Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning Museum of Glass Catalog Series, Corning, NY, Corning Museum of Glass, 1981, p. 180, no. 679.

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. 288, no. 1466.

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. 298, no. 336.