Footed Salt

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Footed Salt

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

ManufacturerProbably South Boston Flint Glass Works (American, 1813-1827)

Date1813-1827

DimensionsH: 8.3 cm (3 9/32 in.); Rim L: 9.8 cm (3 27/32 in.); Rim W: 5.7 cm (2 1/4 in.); Base L: 8.1 cm (3 3/16 in.); Base W: 5.8 cm (2 9/32 in.)

MediumThick colorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1965.44

Not on View

DescriptionBowl blown, by the blow-over and crack-off process, in a one-piece, or possibly two-piece, mold. Joined by a small circular wafer to the base. Base pressed by a hand press. Rim ground and polished. Underside of base decorated with 12-ribbed indentations, ground and polished. No pontil mark.

Published ReferencesWatkins, Lura Woodside, "An Antecedent of Three-Mold Glass," Antiques, vol. 36, August 1939, pp. 68-70 (Reprint 1, pp. 57-59), pp. 68-70.

McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, pp. 284-285, pl. 124.

Rogers, Millard F., Jr., "Early American Pressed Glass: The Duckworth Gift of Glass," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 8, no. 4, Winter 1965, pp. 74-94, no. 4, repr. p. 90.

Wilson, Kenneth M., New England Glass and Glassmaking, Old Sturbridge Village Book, New York, Crowell, 1972, pp. 239-240, fig. 299.

Fauster, Carl U., Libbey Glass Since 1818, Toledo, OH, Len Beach Press, 1979, p. 192, repr. no. 39.

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. 289, no. 319.

Exhibition HistoryThe Toledo Museum of Art, Libbey Glass: A Tradition of 150 Years, 1818-1968, exh. cat., Toledo, Ohio, 1968, p. 57, no. 39.