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Footed Salt

Place of OriginUnited States, probably New England

Date1820-1840

DimensionsRim Diam: 3 5/32 in. (8.0 cm); Base Diam: 1 31/32 in. (5.0 cm); H: 1 25/32 in. (4.5 cm)

MediumColorless glass with a yellowish-green tinge.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1971.17

Not on View

DescriptionBlown in a mold (probably McKearin G.III-21) for a one-fourth-pint decanter of three vertical sections and a base plate (McKearin Rayed and Ringed Type I). Rim sheared and tooled to shape. Rough pontil mark.

Published ReferencesReferences to glass classifications established in McKearin, George S., and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948.

McKearin, Helen and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978; etc., G.III-21, p. 255, pl. 93; p. 261, pl. 100, no. 33; p. 324.

Barlow, Raymond E. and Joan E. Kaiser, The Glass Industry in Sandwich, ed. Lloyd C. Nickerson, 3 vols., Windham, N.H., authors, vol. 1, 1993, repr. p. 277. no. 1432.

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. 240, no. 300.