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

Salt

Manufacturer New England Glass Company (American, 1818 - 1888)

CultureAmerican

MediumPressed glass

DimensionsOverall: 2 x 2 7/8 x 2 1/8 in. (5.1 x 7.3 x 5.4 cm)

InscribedHeavily marked on base, impressed in mold: "N.E. GLASS COMPANY BOSTON".

Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.

Object number71.3783

Not on view

DescriptionLacy salt of opaque white rectangular glass. Basket of fruit and flower motif. Almost mint condition. Neal pattern NE1a, "very rare."

Published ReferencesL.W. & D.B. Neal, _Pressed Glass Salt Dishes of the Lacy Period, 1825-1850_, (Philadelphia: Published by the authors, 1962), 138, No. NE1a.