Salt dishes (two of a set of eleven)

1925-1950

Measurements

1-7/8 in x 1-7/8 in x 3-3/8 in

Materials

Colorless glass

Credit Line

Historic Odessa Foundation, gift of Mrs. G. Brooks Thayer

Accession Number

1962.225

Comments

The boat-shaped salt dish is molded to resemble a cut-glass example of c. 1800.  It has a scalloped rim, prism- or geometric-cut sides resembling ornately cut glass, and a star- or ray-cut underside.  The salts were called “nut dishes” by the donor's representative, Harman Hawkins, in a letter to Winterthur curator John Sweeney dated December 5, 1962, in which the writer noted that three more salts would join the set of eight acknowledged by Winterthur.  The term nut dish describes a 20th century use for this kind of object, which otherwise was an outdated form.

Salt dishes .8 and .10 were photographed.

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