Salt (in form of steamboat)

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Salt (in form of steamboat)

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

Place of OriginSandwich, Massachusetts, United States

Date1827-1835

Dimensions1 5/8 × 3 9/16 × 1 7/8 in. (4.1 × 9.1 × 4.7 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.589

Not on View

DescriptionPressed, probably by a bench press, probably upright in a patterned female mold of three vertical sections (two sides and stern) and an oval base plate by a male plunger, plain except for SANDWICH. Colorless glass.

Published ReferencesRose, James H., The Story of American Pressed Glass of the Lacy Period, 1825-1850, exh. cat., Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, 1954, pp. 147-148, nos. 750, 757.

Neal, L. W. and D. B. Neal, Pressed Glass Salt Dishes of the Lacy Period, 1825-1850, Philadelphia, authors, 1962, p. 29, BT 5.

Wilson, Kenneth M., New England Glass and Glassmaking, Old Sturbridge Village Book, New York, Crowell, 1972, p. 274, fig. 234, left.

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. 175, no. 656.

Barlow, Raymond E. and Joan E. Kaiser, The Glass Industry in Sandwich, ed. Lloyd C. Nickerson, 3 vols., Windham, NH, authors, vol. 1, 1993, repr. p. 286, no. 1463.

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. 295, no. 329.