Salt 1827 - 1870

"Salt" is a pressed glass salt cellar, a small dish for holding salt, produced by the Providence Flint Glass Works between 1827 and 1870 and now housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The piece features intricate, pressed floral motifs, likely made using a mold, on a squat, four-footed base with a scalloped rim. This type of pressed glass, a popular and affordable method of producing decorative glassware in the 19th century, exemplifies the growing popularity of glassmaking in the United States.