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 1/2 in. (3.8 cm)
Overall, Rim: 2 3/16 x 3 in. (5.6 x 7.6 cm)

InscribedBottom marked with previous owners "#93".

Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.

Object number71.4049

Not on view

DescriptionSalt dish of lacy cobalt blue glass. Oval cornucopia. Neal pattern OL11, "very rare."

Published ReferencesL.W. & D.B. Neal, _Pressed Glass Salt Dishes of the Lacy Period, 1825-1850_, (Philadelphia: Published by the authors, 1962), 213, No. OL11.