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Compote

Place of OriginProbably New England or Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Date1825-1840

DimensionsRim Diam: 9 1/2 in. (24.15 cm); Base Diam: 5 17/32 in. (14.1 cm); H: 31/32 in. (17.7 cm)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1964.67

Not on View

DescriptionBowl blown and finished by tooling. Applied stem with large medial knop. Joined by a large wafer to a heavy, flat foot. Pontil mark ground and polished, probably at a later date. Bowl cut with a pattern of strawberry diamonds, fans, vesicas, and, around the bottom, broad flats.

Published ReferencesRogers, Millard F., Jr., "Early American Pressed Glass: The Duckworth Gift of Glass," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 8, no. 4, Winter 1965, pp. 74-94, repr. p. 93.

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, repr. p. 63.

The Toledo Museum of Art, Art in Glass: A Guide to the Glass Collections, Toledo, Ohio, 1969, repr. p. 100.

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. 200, no. 195.

Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Treasures for Toledo, December 1964-January 1965.