Compote

Place of OriginNew England

Date1835-1850

DimensionsH: 6 1/4 in. (15.85 cm); Rim L: 10 15/32 in. (26.6 cm); Rim W: 8 11/16 in. (22.1 cm) ; Base W: 4 13/32 in. (11.2 cm)

MediumAmethyst lead glass; pressed.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1968.42

On View

Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion (2444 Monroe Street), Glass Pavilion Gallery, 3

DescriptionBowl pressed, probably upside down, over a plain male mold by a female plunger bearing the pattern, with a cap ring that formed the wide stepped rim and its slightly sloping scalloped edge, the underside of the rim, and the plain narrow vertical band below the rim. Joined by a wafer to an octagonal lobed base, the lower part decorated with a stylized leaf pattern. Base pressed, probably upside down, in a female mold bearing the pattern by a plain male plunger.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, MA, author, 1947, p. 384, pl. 147.

McKearin, George S. and Helen A. McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, p. 362, pl. 161, bottom.

Keefe, John W., "A Comparison of the Products of the New England and the Boston and Sandwich Glass Companies," pt. 1, The Glass Club Bulletin of the National Early American Glass Club, nos. 96-97, December 1970-March 1971, pp. 3-12; pt. 2, The Glass Club Bulletin of the National Early American Glass Club, no. 98, August 1971, pp. 3-7, p. 9, repr. fig. 12.

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. 4, top right.

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. 95, no. 269, pl. 2, middle.

The Elsholz Collection of Early American Glass, 3 vols., Hyannis, MA, Richard A. Bourne, 1987, vol. 1, no. 162 (canary yellow).

The Elsholz Collection of Early American Glass, 3 vols., Hyannis, MA, Richard A. Bourne, 1987, vol. 2, nos. 814, 1082 (purple blue, possibly a slight variant), 988 (colorless, with hexagonal stem and round base).

Barlow, Raymond E. and Joan E. Kaiser, The Glass Industry in Sandwich, ed. Lloyd C. Nickerson, 3 vols., Windham, NH, authors, vol. 1, 1993, repr. p. 114, no. 1031.

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. 372, no. 502, colorpl. 502, p. 253.

Exhibition HistoryRose, James H., The Story of American Pressed Glass of the Lacy Period, 1825-1850, exh. cat., Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, N.Y., 1954, nos. 175, 211, 214, 226, pl. XXIX.