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Compote

Place of OriginProbably Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Date1830-1840

DimensionsRim Diam: 8 7/32 in. (20.9 cm); Base Diam: 3 3/4 in. (9.5 cm); H: 6 1/2 in. (16.5 cm)

MediumColorless lead glass with a grayish cast. Bowl blown and finished by tooling.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1959.49

Not on View

DescriptionJoined by an applied stem with medial knop to a circular two-step foot made from two applied and tooled gathers. Rough, solid pontil mark. Bowl sketchily engraved with a meandering band of flowers and leaves.

Published ReferencesMcKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, p. 153, repr. pl. 49, no. 2.

Rogers, Millard F., Jr., "American Glass: 1608-1940, " Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 4, no. 3, Summer 1961, pp. 51-70, repr. p. 68.

Rogers, Millard F., Jr., "The Story of American Glass," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 9, no. 3, Autumn 1966, pp. 51-70; rev. and reprinted as a Toledo Museum handbook, pp. 51-52, repr. p. 62.

The Toledo Museum of Art, Art in Glass: A Guide to the Glass Collections, Toledo, Ohio, 1969, repr. p. 97.

Innes, Lowell, Pittsburgh Glass, 1791-1891: A History and Guide for Collectors, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1976, p. 170, fig. 146.

Wilson, Kenneth M., American Glass, 1760-1930: The Toledo Museum of Art, New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Toledo Museum of Art, [Lanham, Md.]: National Book Network [distributor], c1994; 2 v. (879 p.): ill. (some col.); 32 cm., 1994, p. 823, no. 1408.