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Salt

Place of Originprobably Eastern United States

Date1835-1850

Dimensions2 1/16 × 3 × 1 3/4 in. (5.2 × 7.6 × 4.4 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.578

Not on View

DescriptionPressed upright in a female mold of four vertical sections, bearing the pattern for the sides and ends, with a base plate bearing a pattern of triangular ribs paralleling the ends of the salt with a section of short ribs at each end, by a plain male plunger that formed the interior. Colorless glass.

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

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. 349, no. 445.