Boat Salt

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Object Name: 
Boat Salt
Place Made: 
possibly Ireland
possibly England
Accession Number: 
50.2.51 B
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 7.2 cm; Rim Diam: 8.4 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1790-1810
Primary Description: 
Colorless lead glass; blown, pressed, cut. Cut bowl; pressed oval foot with diamond-shaped top, and concave oval "lemon squeezer" underneath (with 14 flutes); the sides and bottom of the foot polished; no sign of a pontil mark.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Steuben Glass, Inc., Source
1950-10-01
Category: 
Early American
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
glassblowing
cutting
pressing
Material: 
lead glass

Publications (1)

American and European Pressed Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (1981) p. 23, #8; BIB# 30457

Objects in Set (2)

2 Salt Dishes
Date:about 1790-1810
Accession Number:50.2.51
Boat Salt
Date:about 1790-1810
Accession Number:50.2.51 A