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Salt
Place of OriginPossibly United States
DateProbably 1835-1850; possibly 1870-1890
DimensionsRim L: 3 in. (7.6 cm); Rim W: 2 in. (5.1 cm); H: 2 1/16 in. (5.3 cm)
MediumColorless glass.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth
Object number
1982.168
Not on View
DescriptionPressed, probably upright, in a female mold of four vertical sections, with a base plate bearing a sunburst pattern, plain axles, and corrugations at the ends, 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. 265. pl. 74, no. 8, 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. 149, no. 768.
Neal, L. W. and D. B. Neal, Pressed Glass Salt Dishes of the Lacy Period, 1825-1850, Philadelphia, authors, 1962, p. 464, WN 1a.
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. 198, no. 781.
The Elsholz Collection of Early American Glass, 3 vols., Hyannis, MA, Richard A. Bourne, 1987, vol. 3, no. 1578.
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. 352, no. 453.
1835-1850; possibly 1870-1890
1835-1850
Probably 1830-1835
1835-1850
1835-1850
1835-1845
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