Compote and Cover

Manufacturer Gillinder and Sons (American, 1861-1930)

Date1876-1885

Dimensionswith cover: 11 5/16 (H) × 6 (Rim diam.) × 3 11/16 (Base diam.) in. (28.7 × 15.3 × 9.4 cm)
without cover: 6 1/4 (H) × 6 (Rim diam.) × 3 11/16 (Base diam.) in. (15.9 × 15.2 × 9.4 cm)

MediumColorless glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph S. Riegel

Object number

1961.43

On View

Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Gallery, 23A, New Media

DescriptionCompote: pressed in the same manner and pattern and the same type of mold as 1961.45. Cover: pressed upside down in a one-piece mold that formed the exterior of the cover below the figure, in conjunction with a four-piece female mold that formed the Indian finial, by a plain male plunger. The moldmarks follow various complicated paths over the figure's anatomy. The Indian, the top of the cover, and the band on the compote were frosted by acid etching.

Published ReferencesKeefe, John W., "American Lacy and Pressed Glass in the Toledo Museum of Art," Antiques, vol. 100, July 1971, pp. 104-109 (Reprint 2, pp. 151-156), p. 109, repr. fig. 11.

Roger Dodsworth, in Klein, Dan and Ward Lloyd, eds., The History of Glass, London, Orbis, 1984, p. 192, ill. (repr. TMA 1961.42).

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. 505, no. 841.

Exhibition HistoryTMA, Currier and Ives, December 1961.