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Salt

Place of OriginUnited States, Massachusetts, Sandwich

Date1835-1850

Dimensions1 3/4 × 2 11/16 × 2 in. (4.4 × 6.9 × 5.1 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.579

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 sixteen-pointed incised star, by a plain male plunger. Shear mark on interior. Cobalt-blue lead glass.

Published ReferencesNeal, L. W. and D. B. Neal, Pressed Glass Salt Dishes of the Lacy Period, 1825-1850, Philadelphia, authors, 1962, p. 134, MV 1b.

Spillman, Jane S., American and European Pressed Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning Museum of Glass Catalog Series, Corning, N.Y., Corning Museum of Glass, 1981, p. 183, no. 695.

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. 444.