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Salt

Place of OriginProbably United States

Date1820-1830

DimensionsL rim 8.7 cm (3 13/32 in.); W rim 5.3 cm (2 3/32 in.); L base 6.2 cm (2 7/16 in.); W base 3.6 cm (1 13/32 in.); H 4.4 cm (1 23/32 in.)

MediumThick colorless glass with a yellowish tinge; mold blown.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1965.86

Not on View

DescriptionBlown, by the blow-over and crack-off process, in a mold, probably of two vertical sections, with hinge and opening at diagonally opposite corners, and a base plate bearing a rather small indented eight-pointed elongated star. 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. 211, no. 221.