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Salt

Place of OriginProbably New England

Date1813-1830

DimensionsL rim 8.7 cm (3 3/8 in.); W rim 5.7 cm (2 3/16 in.); L base 7.0 cm (2 3/4 in.); W base 4.2 cm (1 5/8 in.); H 4.0 cm (1 9/16 in.)

MediumThick, colorless glass; mold blown.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1965.88

Not on View

DescriptionBlown, by the blow-over and crack-off process, in a mold, probably of one piece, that formed a vertically ribbed oval body on a smaller plain oval base bearing a highly stylized tree, or tree-like ornament, on its underside, centered from side to side but with the bottom of the tree some distance from the one end while the top is very close to the other end. No pontil mark. Rim ground flat and polished, as is the edge. Side cut horizontally with three grooves and polished.

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.

McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, p. 144.

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. 206, no. 205.