New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.

Compote Or Footed Bowl

Manufacturer Unknown

CultureAmerican

Dateca. 1820-50

MediumBlown glass | Lead glass

DimensionsOverall: 8 3/4 in. (22.2 cm)
Overall, Rim: 9 in. (22.9 cm)
Base: 5 1/2 in. (14 cm)

Credit LineGift of Alice Granbery Walter

Object number92.22

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DescriptionThis Compote or footed bowl, Nine-Inch, is blown, colorless lead-formula glass. It has a thin hemispheric bowl with folded rim, merese at base of bowl, hollow baluster stem, heavy merese at base of baluster, thick slightly domed foot, polished pontil.

Published ReferencesFor vessels with a hollow baluster see: Lowell Innes, _Pittsburgh Glass_, p. 179, 197, figs. 155 & 184. For a blown baluster-stem bowl with similar elements, but different proportions see: Kenneth M. Wilson, _New England Glass and Glassmaking_, p. 224, fig. 181.