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

Salt Dish

Manufacturer Boston & Sandwich Glass Co. (American, 1826-1888)

CultureAmerican

MediumPressed glass

DimensionsOverall: 1 3/4 x 2 3/4 x 2 in. (4.4 x 7 x 5.1 cm)

Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.

Object number71.4085

Not on view

DescriptionSalt dish of cobalt blue lacy glass. Oblong on four feet. Oval and diamond chain around the top. Conventional scroll on the sides against a stippled background. Heavy sixteen pointed star on the base. Neal pattern MV1b, "very rare."

Published ReferencesL.W. & D.B. Neal, _Pressed Glass Salt Dishes of the Lacy Period, 1825-1850_, (Philadelphia: Published by the authors, 1962), 135, No. MV1b