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Salt

Place of OriginProbably New England

Date1820-1830

DimensionsRim L: 3 1/16 in. (7.8 cm); Rim W: 2 5/32 in. (5.5 cm); Base L: 2 13/32 in. (6.1 cm); Base W: 1 9/16 in. (4.0 cm); H: 1 27/32 in. (4.7 cm)

MediumThick colorless glass; mold blown.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1965.85

Not on View

DescriptionBlown, by the blow-over and crack-off process, in a mold of an undetermined number of vertical sections and a base plate bearing a pattern of large indented diamonds (three rows of four full diamonds with a half diamond at each end, two rows of five diamonds, and five half diamonds on each side). 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.

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

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. 213.