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Salt, Steamboat-Form

Manufacturer Boston and Sandwich Glass Works (American, 1826-1888)

Date1827-1835

DimensionsH: 4.2 cm (1 21/32 in.); Rim L: 9.05 cm (3 1/2 in.); Base L: 4.1 cm (1 19/32 in.)

MediumDeep greenish blue lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1968.21

Not on View

DescriptionPressed upright, probably by a bench press, in the same type of mold and in the same manner as 1917.589, but with a different base plate. 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, pp. 242-243, 261, no. 2.

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. 756.

Neal, L. W. and D. B. Neal, Pressed Glass Salt Dishes of the Lacy Period, 1825-1850, Philadelphia, authors, 1962, p. 28, BT 4d.

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. 175, no. 653.

Barlow, Raymond E. and Joan E. Kaiser, The Glass Industry in Sandwich, ed. Lloyd C. Nickerson, 3 vols., Windham, NH, authors, vol. 1, 1993, repr. p. 287, no. 1464.

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. 295, no. 330; colorpl. 330, p. 249.