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saltcellar

Object NameBeehive Salt Cellar
Made FromNon-lead Glass
Dateprobably 1850-1875
Place Madepossibly United States, NJ, Fislerville
TechniqueFree-blown, tooled
SizeOverall H: 8.5 cm; Body Diam: 8.8 cm
Accession Number50.4.355
Curatorial Area(s)
Exhibitions
Loan exhibition of eighteenth and early nineteenth century furniture & glass; for the benefit of the National Council of Girl Scouts, inc.
On ViewThe Jerome and Lucille Strauss Study Gallery
Physical DescriptionSalt Cellar. Non-lead, cobalt blue, free-blown and tooled, deep truncated-cone bowl with sides of eight graduated round rings, and contracted at top of sloping circular foot with flat base having glass-ring pontil mark.
Provenance
Source George S. McKearin (b. 1874) - 1929-1950-07-31
One of a pair purchased in 1929 from a dealer who bought them in a private home in Clayton (Fislerville) New Jersey.

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