Hat Salt

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Hat Salt

Place of OriginUnited States, probably New England

Date1825-1840

DimensionsMax W: 2 9/16 in. (6.5 cm); Base Diam: 2 1/32 in. (5.1 cm); H: 2 3/8 in. (6.0 cm)

MediumSlightly purplish-blue lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1971.14

Not on View

DescriptionBlown in a mold (McKearin G.III-23) of three vertical sections and a base plate (McKearin Rayed Type IV). Hat brim with inward-folded 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-23, p. 256, pl. 94; p. 261, pl. 100, no. 28; p. 313.

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. 242, no. 306.