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Salt
Place of OriginProbably United States; possibly Europe
Date1835-1850; possibly 1870-1890
DimensionsRim L: 3 in. (7.65 cm); Rim W: 2 1/4 in. (5.65 cm); H: 2 1/8 in. (5.3 cm)
MediumColorless glass with a dull gray tinge.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth
Object number
1982.174
Not on View
DescriptionPressed, probably upright, in a female mold of four vertical sections bearing the pattern and the four wheels, with a base plate bearing a six-pointed flower with six small bosses between its leaves, surrounded by a circle, and two axles each bearing four small dots on each side with a zigzag pattern at either end, by a plain male plunger.
Published ReferencesNeal, L. W. and D. B. Neal, Pressed Glass Salt Dishes of the Lacy Period, 1825-1850, Philadelphia, authors, 1962, p. 465, WN 2.
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. 782.
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. 454.
Probably 1835-1850; possibly 1870-1890
Late 6th- early 7th centuries CE
1850-1870, or later
1835-1855
Probably 6th century
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