Salt

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

Date1827-1835

DimensionsL rim 7.9 cm (3 1/8 in.); W rim 5.4 cm (2 1/8 in.); L base 7.35 cm (2 29/32 in.); W base 4.5 cm (1 25/32 in.); H 5.1 cm (2 in.)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1982.180

Not on View

DescriptionPressed upright, probably by a bench press, in a female mold of four vertical sections opening at the corners, with a base plate bearing a diamond with one end cut off enclosing a pattern of waffled squares, by a plain male plunger. Shear mark on the plain interior surface of the base.

Published ReferencesNeal, L. W. and D. B. Neal, Pressed Glass Salt Dishes of the Lacy Period, 1825-1850, Philadelphia, authors, 1962, p. 441, SD 4a.

Spillman, Jane S., American and European Pressed Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning Museum of Glass Catalog Series, Corning, N.Y., Corning Museum of Glass, 1981, p. 195, no. 763.

Your Obedient Servant, Deming Jarves: Correspondence of the Boston & Sandwich Glass Company's Founder, 1825-1829, ed. Barbara Bishop and Martha Hassell, Sandwich, Mass., Sandwich Historical Society, 1984, pp. 96, 111, fig. 19 (Gregory, Bain order).

The Elsholz Collection of Early American Glass, 3 vols., Hyannis, Mass., Richard A. Bourne, 1987, vol. 3, no. 1569.

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. 296, no. 332.