Compote

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Object Name: 
Compote
Place Made: 
United States
Accession Number: 
89.4.4
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 15.5 cm; Rim Diam: 23.6 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1840-1860
Credit Line: 
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn W. Tripp
Primary Description: 
Colorless, lead glass; pressed in two parts, tooled. Circular shape bowl; outflaring rim with serrated edge and a series of rectangular openings in wall; sunburst pattern pressed on the underside of the flat base; joined by a wafer to a conical hollow six-sided stem and base; four evenly spaced mold marks running from the top edge to the bottom edge of the bowl.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Tripp, Mrs. Glenn W., Source
Tripp, Glenn W., Source
Color: 
Colorless, lead
colorless
Technique: 
pressing

Publications (2)

Recent Important Acquisitions, 32 (1990) illustrated, p. 197, #21; BIB# AI74245
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1989 (1990) p. 5; BIB# AI96380