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Compote
Manufacturer: Probably Fort Pitt Glass Works (American)
Date: 1835-1840
Dimensions:
Rim Diam: 5 1/4 in. (13.3 cm); Base Diam: 2 13/16 in. (7.1 cm); H: 2 23/32 in. (6.9 cm)
Medium: Deep blue lead glass.
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth
Object number: 1968.16
DescriptionBowl pressed upside down over a plain male mold by a female plunger bearing the pattern. Rim with forty-eight scallops. Joined directly to a base consisting of an eight-lobed foot with sixteen tapered rounded ribs above, apparently terminating in a circular stem that is encircled with three applied and tooled wafers. Base pressed upside down in a female mold, probably of one piece, by a plain male plunger.
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