Salt

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

Manufacturer New England Glass Company (American, 1818-1888)

Place of OriginUnited States

Date1818-1830

DimensionsH: 2 in. (5.1 cm); Max Rim Diam: 2 11/16 in. (6.8 cm); Base Diam: 1 31/32 in. (5.0 cm)

MediumThick colorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1953.18A

Not on View

DescriptionBlown, by the blow-over and crack-off process, in a mold of three vertical sections (two sections each bearing three elements of the design, the third section only two) and a base plate bearing a pattern of fifty fine rays extending from a small, plain circle at the center to the edge. Rim ground and polished. No pontil mark.

Published ReferencesWatkins, Lura Woodside, Cambridge Glass, 1818-1888: The Story of the New England Glass Company, Boston, Marshall Jones, 1930; reprint, New York, Bramball House, 1953, pp. 108-111, pl. 46, right.

Watkins, Lura Woodside, "An Antecedent of Three-Mold Glass," Antiques, vol. 36, August 1939, pp. 68-70 (Reprint 1, pp. 57-59), pp. 68-70, fig. 1, no. B, bottom row.

Lee, Ruth Web, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, Mass., author, 1947, p. 163, pl. 26, bottom row, right.

McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, p. 144, pl. 124, no. 6.

Wilson, Kenneth M., New England Glass and Glassmaking, Old Sturbridge Village Book, New York, Crowell, 1972, pp. 210-211, fig. 159, second from left.

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. 209, no. 215.

Exhibition HistoryThe Toledo Museum of Art, The New England Glass Company, 1818-1888, exh. cat., Toledo, Ohio, 1963, p. 68, no. 81.Comparative ReferencesThe New England Glass Company advertised in the Boston Commercial Gazette of March 27, 1820, among other items "6 do [packages] fan end and octagon moulded salts," which seems to describe this octagonal shape. The Museum also has a colorless salt in this same pattern (TMA 1965.59) made in the same manner but smaller (4.4 cm [1 3/4 in.]) and with an octagonal base instead of a circular one, also from the Duckworth Collection, not included in this catalogue.