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Compote

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

Date1855-1865

DimensionsH: 13.5 cm (5 5/16 in.); Rim Diam: 18.1 cm (7 1/8 in.); Base Diam: 9.8 cm (3 7/8 in.)

MediumBlue lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1965.147

Not on View

DescriptionBowl pressed upright in a one-piece female mold bearing a pattern of seven petals that formed the interior and upper surface of the rim, by a plain male plunger. Joined by a wafer to a circular stem and foot. Base pressed, probably upside down, in a one-piece female mold bearing a pattern of seven petals, by a plain male plunger. Rim fire-polished. Slight evidence of pontil mark.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Early American Pressed Glass, Wellesley Hills, MA, author, 1960, pp. 27-29 (petal-and-loop, or leaf-and-loop, pattern), form no. 3, pls. 1, 4, 154.

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. 87.

"Early American Pressed Glass," Spinning Wheel, vol. 22, no. 3, March 1966, repr. p. 38.

"The Toledo Museum's Major Exhibition of American Pressed Glass," Arts & Antiques, vol. 1, no. 5, March 1966, repr. p. 29.

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. 486, no. 799.