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Compote

ManufacturerProbably Fort Pitt Glass Works (American)

Date1835-1840

DimensionsRim Diam: 5 1/4 in. (13.3 cm); Base Diam: 2 13/16 in. (7.1 cm); H: 2 23/32 in. (6.9 cm)

MediumDeep blue lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1968.16

Not on View

DescriptionBowl pressed upside down over a plain male mold by a female plunger bearing the pattern. Rim with forty-eight scallops. Joined directly to a base consisting of an eight-lobed foot with sixteen tapered rounded ribs above, apparently terminating in a circular stem that is encircled with three applied and tooled wafers. Base pressed upside down in a female mold, probably of one piece, by a plain male plunger.

Published ReferencesWilson, 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. 421, no. 633.