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Salt

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

Date1830-1835

DimensionsRim Diam: 3 5/32 in. (8.0 cm); Base Diam: 2 1/8 in. (5.4 cm); H: 2 1/16 in. (5.2 cm)

MediumOpaque, blue and white, mottled lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1968.26

Not on View

DescriptionPressed upright in a female mold of three vertical sections bearing the pattern of a band of leaves above a band of three branches of flowers, with a plain base plate that formed a gentle reverse curve leading to a cylindrical depression in the underside of the foot, by a male plunger, plain except for a band of five-petaled flowers and leaves alternating with six-pointed stars that formed the decoration on the upper surface of the rim.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, MA, author, 1947, pp. 250, 258, pl. 69, no. 8.

McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, p. 367, pl. 164, 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. 155, no. 848.

Neal, L. W. and D. B. Neal, Pressed Glass Salt Dishes of the Lacy Period, 1825-1850, Philadelphia, authors, 1962, p. 349, RP 2.

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. 348, no. 442, colorpl. 442, p. 251.