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Salt

Place of OriginNew England

Date1840-1850, or later

DimensionsRim L: 3 5/16 in. (8.4 cm); Rim W: 2 3/8 in. (6.1 cm); H: 1 1/2 in. (3.7 cm)

MediumOpalescent lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1982.179

Not on View

DescriptionPressed upright in an oval female mold of four sections, opening at the edges of the cornucopia near each end, bearing the pattern, the ribbed scalloped rim, and the side of the oval base, with a base plate that formed the flat foot ring and a recess with an oval of beads and fine rope surrounding a bowknot in the center, by a plain male plunger.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, MA, author, 1947, p. 266. pl. 75, bottom center.

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. 153, nos. 817-818.

Neal, L. W. and D. B. Neal, Pressed Glass Salt Dishes of the Lacy Period, 1825-1850, Philadelphia, authors, 1962, p. 215, OL 12a.

Spillman, Jane S., American and European Pressed Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning Museum of Glass Catalog Series, Corning, NY, Corning Museum of Glass, 1981, p. 186, no. 707.

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. 351, no. 451.