Salt, Steamboat-Form

ManufacturerProbably Bakewell (American, 1808-1882)

Date1827-1835

DimensionsH: 3.9 cm (1 9/16 in.); Rim L: 9.4 cm (3 11/16 in.); Rim W: 4.5 cm (1 3/4 in.); Base L: 4.0 cm (1 19/32 in.); Base W: 3.0 cm (1 3/16 in.)

MediumPurplish blue lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1968.18

Not on View

DescriptionPressed upright, probably by a bench press, in a female mold of three vertical sections (two sides and stern), with a base plate that formed the rope-patterned foot ring and a recessed base with an anchor whose bottom points toward the bow on a stippled background, by a plain male plunger. Shear mark on interior of base.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Web, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, MA, author, 1947, p. 261, no. 5.

McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, p. 369, pl. 167, no. 3.

Rose, James H., The Story of American Pressed Glass of the Lacy Period, 1825-1850, exh. cat., Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, 1954, p. 148, no. 759.

Neal, L. W. and D. B. Neal, Pressed Glass Salt Dishes of the Lacy Period, 1825-1850, Philadelphia, authors, 1962, p. 21, BT 2.

Innes, Lowell, Pittsburgh Glass, 1791-1891: A History and Guide for Collectors, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1976, p. 32, figs. 14 (Bakewell's invoice), p. 42, fig. 16, nos. 1, 4 (two steamboat salts marked on the stem "J. Robinson & Son Pittsburgh").

Spillman, Jane S., American and European Pressed Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning Museum of Glass Catalog Series, Corning, NY, Corning Museum of Glass, 1981, p. 174, no. 650.

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. 296, no. 331, colorpl. 331, p. 249.