New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.

Salt

Manufacturer Providence Flint Glass Co.

CultureAmerican

MediumGlass

DimensionsOverall: 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm)
Overall, Rim: 1 3/4 x 2 1/2 in. (4.4 x 6.4 cm)

Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.

Object number71.4032

Not on view

DescriptionSalt dish of clear lacy glass. Scroll heart with tulip ends and a star bottom. Four scroll feet and a scroll top. One foot nicked. Scrolled heart design. Neal pattern SC7, "scarce."

Published ReferencesL.W. & D.B. Neal, _Pressed Glass Salt Dishes of the Lacy Period, 1825-1850_, (Philadelphia: Published by the authors, 1962), 392, No. SC7.