Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2015.

Ruby Overlay Compote

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

CultureAmerican

Dateca. 1855

MediumBlown, cased, and cut glass

DimensionsHeight: 8 1/2 in. (21.6 cm)
Base: 6 in. (15.2 cm)
Overall, Rim: 10 1/4 in. (26 cm)

MarkingsNone

Credit LineBequest of Florence L. Smith

Object number52.18.43

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 116-3, Case 26

DescriptionCompote of blown glass, overlay of ruby over clear. Scalloped rim with punty cuts, then a bank of flutes and finally a band of punties. Applied solid stem with seven panel cuts and a slightly dome foot with a star cut bottom.

Label TextTEN-INCH RUBY PLATED AND CUT COMPORT Probably the New England Glass Co. Cambridge, Massachusetts Ca. 1850-1860 Blown cased glass; cut Bequest: Kate Tyler Smith Collection 52.18.43 This comport, plated (cased) and cut in the internationally popular Bohemian style, is documented by descent in the family of Kate Tyler Smith, whose uncle was New England Glass Co. employee Thomas H. Leighton. The New England Glass Co., which showed similar glassware (sometimes called Americo-Bohemian glass) at the New York Crystal Palace in 1853, was one of themost important American makers of glass in the Bohemian style.Published ReferencesMerrill, Nancy O. _A Concise History of Glass Represented in the Chrysler Museum Glass Collection_ (Norfolk, VA: The Chrysler Museum, 1989) 133, 211, and cover. Jeff Harrison, _Collecting with Vision: Treasures From the Chrysler Museum of Art_ (London: D. Giles Ltd., 2007), 139, fig. 173. Diane C. Wright (editor), _Glass Masterworks from the Chrysler Museum of Art_ (Seattle: University of Washington Press), p. 96-97.