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Footed Salt

Place of OriginSandwich, Massachusetts, New England, United States

Date1830-1835; possibly as late as 1840

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

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.580

Not on View

DescriptionPressed, probably upright, in a female mold of three vertical sections, each section bearing a ship and an American eagle facing left, two of the ships sailing right and one left, by a male plunger. The underside of the foot bears a chevron pattern. Colorless glass of dull gray tone.

Published ReferencesCarrick, Alice Van Leer, "Historical Glass Cup-Plates," Antiques, vol. 1, February 1922, pp. 61-66 (Reprint 2, pp. 121-126), p. 23, top right.

Keyes, Homer Eaton, "Museum Examples of Sandwich Glass," editorial, Antiques, vol. 34, July 1938, pp. 20-22 (Reprint 2, pp. 45-46), p. 20, fig. 1, top left.

Lee, Ruth Webb, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, Mass., author, 1947, p. 266, pl. 75, bottom left.

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. 180, no. 678.

The Elsholz Collection of Early American Glass, 3 vols., Hyannis, Mass., Richard A. Bourne, 1987, vol. 1, nos. 305, 306.

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. 399, no. 575.