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Compote and Cover

Manufacturer New England Glass Company (American, 1818-1888)

Date1865-1875

DimensionsH (with cover): 14.8 cm (5 27/32 in.); H (without cover): 7.0 cm (2 3/4 in.); Rim Diam (compote): 15.6 cm (6 5/32 in.); Base Diam (compote): 9.1 cm (3 19/32 in.)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number

1959.27

Not on View

DescriptionCompote bowl pressed upright in a one-piece female mold bearing the Huber pattern on the sides and fifteen elongated bosses that formed fifteen loops on the underside of the bowl, with a cap ring that formed the rim, by a plain male plunger. Joined by a wafer to the hollow stem and foot. Stem and foot pressed, probably upside down, in a one-piece female mold with a cap ring, by a plain male plunger. Rim fire-polished. No pontil marks. Cover: pressed in the same type of mold and in the same manner as 1959.28. Bowl and cover engraved, probably with a stone wheel, with bands of stylized floral and grape motifs.

Published ReferencesWatkins, Lura Woodside, "Pressed Glass of the New England Glass Company: An Early Catalogue at the Corning Museum," Journal of Glass Studies, vol. 22, 1970, pp. 149-164, p. 151, fig. 1 (repr. pl. 2 of New England Glass Company 1869 catalogue, no. 275).

Fauster, Carl U., Libbey Glass Since 1818, Toledo, Ohio, Len Beach Press, 1979, repr. p. 195, no. 65.

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. 536, no. 880.

Exhibition HistoryThe Toledo Museum of Art, The New England Glass Company, 1818-1888, exh. cat., Toledo, Ohio, 1963, p. 75, no. 221.

The Toledo Museum of Art, Libbey Glass: A Tradition of 150 Years, 1818-1968, exh. cat., Toledo, Ohio, 1968, p. 58, no. 65.