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

Salt Dish

Manufacturer Providence Flint Glass Co.

CultureAmerican

MediumGlass

DimensionsOverall: 2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm)
Overall, Rim: 2 1/4 x 3 in. (5.7 x 7.6 cm)

InscribedImpressed on bottom to be read from inside: "PROVIDENCE".

Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.

Object number71.4031

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DescriptionSalt dish of clear lacy glass. Sleigh on four scroll feet. Neal pattern PE1, "very rare."

Published ReferencesL.W. & D.B. Neal, _Pressed Glass Salt Dishes of the Lacy Period, 1825-1850_, (Philadelphia: Published by the authors, 1962), 305, No. PE1.