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Compote

Manufacturer Central Glass Company (American, 1863-1891)

Date1880-1891

DimensionsH: 17.1 cm (6 23/32 in.); Rim Diam: 22.0 cm (8 21/32 in.); Base Diam: 12.5 cm (4 15/16 in.)

MediumDeep cobalt-blue bowl and colorless stem and foot, non-lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1965.74

Not on View

DescriptionCentral no. 439 pattern compote. Bowl pressed upright in a one-piece female mold bearing a pattern of eleven flutes with a band of diamonds above and a scalloped border and narrow rope band below the scalloped rim, by a plain male plunger. Joined directly to an octagonal stem and round foot. Base pressed upside down in a female mold of two vertical sections by a plain male plunger. No pontil mark.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Early American Pressed Glass, Wellesley Hills, MA, author, 1960, pp. 331-336 (no. 439 pattern, so-called diamond-band pattern), form no. 4, pl. 103, bottom right (goblet).

The Toledo Museum of Art, Art in Glass: A Guide to the Glass Collections, Toledo, OH, 1969, repr. p. 105.

Gunther, Charles F., "How Glass Is Made," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 15, no. 1, 1972, repr. p. 17.

Eige, Eason, A Century of Glassmaking in West Virginia, exh. cat., Huntington Galleries, Huntington, W.Va., 1980, repr. pp. 17-18, no. 60.

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. 512, no. 859.