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Compote

ManufacturerPossibly Boston and Sandwich Glass Works (American, 1826-1888)

Date1850-1865

DimensionsRim Diam: 7 9/16 in. (19.2 cm); Base Diam: 3 31/32 in. (10.1 cm); H: 4 3/4 in. (12.1 cm)

MediumThick colorless lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1965.132

Not on View

DescriptionBowl pressed upside down over a plain male mold by a female plunger bearing the Plume pattern on its side and rays on its center. Joined directly to the stem and foot. Base pressed upside down in a plain female mold of three vertical sections that formed the stem and the top of the foot, with a cap ring that formed the edge of the foot, by a male plunger of circular shape that formed the hollow interior of the standard, with a circular top section bearing the Plume pattern that formed the underside of the foot. No pontil mark.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, Mass., author, 1947, p. 376, pl. 139, top.

McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, pp. 362-363, pl. 162, no. 7.

Rogers, 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. 81.

Keefe, 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. 108, repr. fig. 8.

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. 484, no. 796.