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Footed Salt

Place of OriginMidwest, probably Pittsburgh, PA or Wheeling, WV

Date1810-1830

DimensionsH: 3 1/8 in. (7.9 cm); Rim Diam: 2 25/32 in. (7.1 cm); Base Diam: 2 1/8 in. (5.4 cm)

MediumBlue lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1971.18

Not on View

DescriptionDouble-ogee bowl blown in a one-piece dip mold patterned with 16 almost vertical ribs. Removed and twisted slightly to the right near the lip. Joined by a solid ribbed knop drawn from the same gather to the foot. Slightly sloping circular foot tooled from an applied gather. 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, p. 54, pl. 23, no. 6.

McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass, Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1950; rev. ed., 1966, p. 36, pl. 3, no. 6.

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. 192, no. 174.