Compote

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Object Name: 
Compote
Place Made: 
United States
Accession Number: 
68.4.351
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 15.2 cm, W: 22.5 cm, L: 26.8 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1830-1840
Primary Description: 
Canary yellow glass; pressed in two parts. Ovoid bowl; flat scalloped rim; stippled; sides with pattern of shield-medallions and scroll motifs, alternating with baskets of flowers; oval in bottom center with quatrefoil surrounded by linked S-scrolls; eight-lobed, hollow standard, pressed separately, applied to bowl with wafer; with leaf pattern.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Esterly, Louise S., Former Collection
1949-11-13
to
1968
McKearin Antiques, Former Collection
1949-11-13
Category: 
Early American
Color: 
yellow
Technique: 
pressing
Material: 
glass

Publications (2)

Tableware in Transition: Pressed Flint Glass (1988) p. 39, ill.; BIB# AI20495
American and European Pressed Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (1981) illustrated, p. 95, #270, pl. 2; BIB# 30457