Salt and Cover

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

Date1830-1840

DimensionsH (with cover): 8.0 cm (3 5/32 in.); H (without cover): 4.9 cm (1 15/16 in.); Rim L: 8.0 cm (3 5/32 in.); Rim W: 4.7 cm (1 27/32 in.); Base L: 5.35 cm (2 3/32 in.); Base W: 4.4 cm (1 23/32 in.)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1982.177

Not on View

DescriptionSalt: pressed upright in a female mold of four vertical sections bearing the complete pattern for the ends and sides including the feet and rim, with a base plate bearing a pattern of a series of concentric circles around a 12-pointed star, or rosette, that formed the exterior bottom of the salt and the inner surfaces of the scrolled legs, by a plain male plunger that formed the interior. Cover: pressed upside down in a one-piece plain female mold, in conjunction with a female mold of two vertical sections that formed the pineapple finial, by a male plunger bearing the pattern that formed that interior and bottom side of the rim.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Web, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, Mass., author, 1947, pp. 241-242, 258, pl. 69, no. 3.

McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, pl. 164, no. 5.

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. 157, no. 873.

Neal, L. W. and D. B. Neal, Pressed Glass Salt Dishes of the Lacy Period, 1825-1850, Philadelphia, authors, 1962, p. 38, CD 2.

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. 350, no. 446.