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

Salt

Manufacturer Unknown

CultureFinnish

Dateca. 1940

MediumPressed glass

DimensionsOverall: 1 7/8 in. (4.8 cm)
Overall, Rim: 2 1/4 x 3 1/4 in. (5.7 x 8.3 cm)

Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.

Object number71.7140

Not on view

DescriptionSalt of pressed blue lacy glass. Oval and footed. Scroll design with fan ends. Several "fins". Similar to Neal pattern OP11.

Published ReferencesCatalogue, FINLANDS NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1983, pg. 102, similar example, non-flint. L.W. & D.B. Neal, _Pressed Glass Salt Dishes of the Lacy Period, 1825-1850_, (Philadelphia: Published by the authors, 1962), 261, No. OP11 (similar to).