Compote and Cover

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Compote and Cover

Place of OriginProbably Midwest

Date1875-1885

DimensionsH (with cover): 24.3 cm (9 9/16 in.); H (without cover): 13.0 cm (5 1/8 in.); Rim Diam: 20.4 cm (8 1/32 in.); Base Diam: 11.7 cm (4 5/8 in.)

MediumNon-lead glass, pressed

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Wittman

Object number

1985.121A-B

Not on View

DescriptionColorless non-lead glass with a slightly greenish tinge. Compote: entire piece pressed, probably upright, in a female mold of three vertical sections bearing the so-called Cape Cod pattern, consisting of three vignettes (two scenic views of mountains and one view of water and sailboats, surrounded by sprays of ivy on a stippled ground), with a plain male plug that formed the hollow interior of the base, with a cap ring that formed the upper surface of the rim, by a plain male plunger. Upper surface of foot ribbed in the female mold. Cover: pressed upside down in a one-piece female mold bearing a pattern of three vignettes similar to those on the bowl, in conjunction with a three-piece female mold that formed the finial, by a plain male plunger.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Early American Pressed Glass, Wellesley Hills, Mass., author, 1960, pp. 345-346 (Cape Cod pattern), form no. 14, pls. 114 (plate), 115 (line drawings of several forms).

Kamm, Minnie W., Pattern Glass, Pitchers, bks. 1-8, Grosse Pointe, Mich., author, 1946-54, p. 118.

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. 503, no. 838.