2 Compotes

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Object Name: 
2 Compotes
Place Made: 
United States
Accession Number: 
68.4.421
Dimensions: 
See Individual Records
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
about 1840-1860
Primary Description: 
Amethyst glass; pressed and tooled. Truncated conical shape; six-petaled rim; six sides, each with an elongated oval loop, attached by a wafer to a hollow hexagonal standard with six loops around sides; circular base rim; pontil mark inside.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Esterly, Louise S., Source
Pennypacker Auction Center, Former Collection
Color: 
amethyst
Technique: 
pressed and tooled

Publications (1)

American and European Pressed Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (1981) illustrated, p. 223, #867, pl. 11; BIB# 30457

Objects in Set (2)

Compote
Date:about 1840-1860
Accession Number:68.4.421 A
Compote
Date:about 1840-1860
Accession Number:68.4.421 B