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Footed Salt

Place of OriginProbably Pittsburgh-Monongahela area, PA; possibly Ohio

Date1815-1835

DimensionsH: 7.0 cm (2 3/4 in.); Rim Diam: 7.4 cm (2 29/32 in.); Base Diam: 5.3 cm (2 3/32 in.)

MediumAmethyst lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

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

Object number

1955.217

Not on View

DescriptionBowl blown in a one-piece dip mold patterned with 22 vertical ribs. Removed and twisted to the left. Expanded and tooled into a double-ogee shape to create a broken swirl to the left. Plain low, sloping foot tooled from an applied gather. Small, rough, solid pontil mark.

Published ReferencesMcKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, p. 54, pl. 23, no. 6, pl. 80, no. 6

Innes, Lowell, Early Glass of the Pittsburgh District, 1797-1900, exh. cat., Carnegie Institute Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, 1949, frontis.

McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass, Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1950; rev. ed., 1966, pp. 65-73, repr. pl. 3, no. 4, and cover

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. 190, no. 170, colorpl. 170, p. 156.