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Salt

Place of OriginProbably the United States

Date1840-1860

DimensionsH: 1 21/32 in. (4.2 cm); Rim W: 3 1/16 in. (7.8 cm); Base Diam: 2 1/32 in. (5.2 cm)

MediumLight purplish-blue non-lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1965.14

Not on View

DescriptionPressed upright in the same manner and in the same type of mold as 1965.13, but the pattern on the underside of the octagonal base is a sixteen-pointed star. A cap ring bearing an egg-and-dart motif formed the side and top of the rim. No fire-polishing. No pontil mark.

Published ReferencesSpillman, 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. 241, no. 937.

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. 473, no. 769.