Footed Salt

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Footed Salt

Place of OriginSouth Jersey, United States

Date1830-1850

Dimensions2 1/16 × 2 3/8 × 2 3/8 × 1 15/16 × 2 3/8 in. (5.3 × 6 × 6 × 5 × 6 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1920.19

Not on View

DescriptionBody blown, apparently as a taller vessel. After being stuck up, decorated by tooling to form horizontal ribs, then the upper half folded inward and tooled to create flattened ribs on the interior. Applied heavy sloping foot. Rough, open pontil mark. Deep cobalt-blue non-lead glass.

Published ReferencesMcKearin, George S. and Helen A. McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, pp. 171, 218, pl. 74, nos. 1, 7 (two salts of the same type).

Pepper, Adeline, The Glass Gaffers of New Jersey and Their Creations from 1739 to the Present, New York, Scribner's, 1971, fig. 131 (a salt of the same type found in a home in Clayton, N.J., and tentatively attributed to the Fislerville Glass Works, Fislerville, N.J., 1850s).

Spillman, Jane Shadel, Glass Tableware, Bowls, and Vases, New York, Knopf, 1982, p. 174 (same salt as McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, pl. 74).

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. 138, no. 111.