Compote
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Compote
ManufacturerProbably
Boston and Sandwich Glass Works
(American, 1826-1888)
Date1835-1850
DimensionsRim Diam: 10 1/16 in. (25.5 cm); Base Diam: 4 23/32 in. (12.0 cm); H: 5 5/16 in. (13.5 cm)
MediumColorless glass.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth
Object number
1968.54
Not on View
DescriptionBowl pressed upright in a one-piece female mold bearing the pattern of princess-feather medallions and geometric motifs by a plain male plunger. Shear mark on plain interior surface. Joined by a wafer to the base. Base pressed, probably upside down, in a three-piece female mold bearing a ribbed pattern on the upper surface and a band of scrolls surrounding a depressed area patterned with fans and diamonds on the underside, by a male plunger.
Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, MA, author, 1947, p. 375, p. 346, pl. 119 (bowl pressed in the same mold).
McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, p. 362, pl. 159, fig. 1 (bowl pressed in the same mold).
Rose, James H., The Story of American Pressed Glass of the Lacy Period, 1825-1850, exh. cat., Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, 1954, p. 89, no. 239, pl. XXX, top (bowl in this pattern and a Meissen porcelain compote), no. 242, pl. XXX, bottom.
Spillman, Jane S., American and European Pressed Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning Museum of Glass Catalog Series, Corning, NY, Corning Museum of Glass, 1981, p. 93, no. 261 (bowl in this pattern).
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. 375, no. 507.
Exhibition HistoryMiami University Art Museum, Glass: Pre-Roman to the Present, Oxford, OH, November 8, 1980-February 8, 1981.
1835-1850
1850-1870, or later
1840-1850
1835-1845
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