Compote

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Object Name: 
Compote
Place Made: 
United States, probably PA, Philadelphia
Accession Number: 
55.4.209
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 16 cm; Rim Diam: 16.8 cm; Foot Diam: 10.6 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1920-1930
Primary Description: 
Compote. Clear glass; blown-three-mold; conical plain foot with rough pontil mark applied to stem with solid flat knop, straight sided bowl with heavy applied rim of deep sapphire-blue glass; bowl patterned in GIII-2 sunburst pattern.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
McKearin Antiques, Source
1955-11-12
Color: 
colorless
sapphire
Technique: 
blown three-mold glass
applied
applied decoration
Material: 
glass

Publications (7)

Chemical Analyses of Early Glasses (Volume 1) (1999) pp. 191, 250; BIB# 61154
Chemical Analyses of Early Glasses (Volume 2) (1999) p. 440; BIB# 61154
Some Blown-Three-Mold Suspicions Confirmed (1973) illustrated, pp. 164-165, fig. 27; BIB# AI75478
Woman's day dictionary of Sandwich glass (1963) illustrated, p. 22 (bottom left); BIB# 98017
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Doubleday edition) (1950) pl. 19, #2, pp. 158-159; BIB# 25299
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Crown Publishers edition) (1950) pl. 19, #2, pp. 158-159; BIB# 76944
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Bonanza Books edition) (1950) pl. 19, #2, pp. 158-159; BIB# 96725