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Salt

Place of OriginProbably New England

Date1813-1830

DimensionsL rim 6.4 cm (2 1/2 in.); W rim 4.8 cm (1 7/8 in.); L base 7.8 cm (3 1/16 in.); W base 4.8 cm (1 7/8 in.); H 3.4 cm (1 11/32 in.)

MediumThick, deep sapphire-blue lead glass; mold blown.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1965.89

Not on View

DescriptionBlown, by the blow-over and crack-off process, in a mold, probably of one piece, that formed both the vertically ribbed sides and the base bearing a large, elongated eight-pointed star on its underside. Rim ground flat 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. 206, no. 204.