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Salt

ManufacturerProbably Boston and Sandwich Glass Works (American, 1826-1888)

Date1830-1850

DimensionsRim L: 3 3/4 in. (9.5 cm); Rim W: 3 in. (7.5 cm); H: 1 3/8 in. (3.5 cm)

MediumOpalescent light blue lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1982.169

Not on View

DescriptionPressed, probably upright, in a female mold of two vertical sections bearing the peacock-eye pattern, with a base plate bearing a sunburst pattern with twenty-eight rays, by a plain male plunger.

Published ReferencesMcKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, p. 369, pl. 166, no. 5.

Neal, L. W. and D. B. Neal, Pressed Glass Salt Dishes of the Lacy Period, 1825-1850, Philadelphia, authors, 1962, p. 282, PO 4.

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. 192, no. 746.

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. 450.