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Compote

Place of OriginPittsburgh, Pennsylvania, or New England

Date1855-1865

DimensionsRim Diam: 6 5/16 in. (16.0 cm); Base Diam: 3 15/16 in. (10.0 cm); H: 4 11/16 in. (11.9 cm)

MediumDeep royal blue lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1965.123

Not on View

DescriptionBowl pressed upright in a one-piece female mold bearing the Bigler pattern on the sides and a rayed sunburst on the bottom by a plain male plunger. Joined to a solid baluster stem and a circular foot formed by tooling. No fire-polishing. Rough pontil mark.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Early American Pressed Glass, Wellesley Hills, Mass., author, 1960, p. 47 (Bigler pattern; no compote listed among known forms), pl. 10, row 4.

McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, p. 389, pl. 198, no. 15 (vase).

Innes, Lowell, Pittsburgh Glass, 1791-1891: A History and Guide for Collectors, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1976, p. 345, fig. 370, no. 3 (bowl).

Spillman, Jane S., American and European Pressed Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning Museum of Glass Catalog Series, Corning, N.Y., Corning Museum of Glass, 1981, p. 246, no. 962 (bowl).

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. 476, no. 776.