Hat Salt

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Hat Salt

Place of OriginProbably New England

Date1815-1840

DimensionsH: 5.1 cm (2 in.); Max W: 7.3 cm (2 7/8 in.); Base Diam: 4.3 cm (1 11/16 in.)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1971.12

Not on View

DescriptionBlown in a mold (McKearin G.II-18) for an inkstand of three vertical sections and a base plate (McKearin Rayed Type VI.A). Hat brim with inward-folded rim sheared and tooled to shape. Rough, solid pontil mark.

Published ReferencesMcKearin, 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.II-18, p. 251, pl. 88; p. 261, pl. 100, no. 30; p. 312; pl. 107, no. 9

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. 241, no. 303.