Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.

Compote

Manufacturer Clark & Biddle

CultureAmerican

Dateca. 1865

MediumSterling silver | Gold plate

DimensionsOverall: 10 3/4 x 10 7/8 in. (27.3 x 27.6 cm)
Base: 5 1/4 in. (13.3 cm)

InscribedMarked on bottom: "Clark & Biddle" "425" a lion, anchor and a gothic "G", "Sterling" and "B 2".

Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.

Object number77.499

Not on view

Exhibition HistorySILVER FROM THE CHRYSLER MUSEUM, The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA, Decorative Arts Gallery, September 16, 1993-February 11, 1994 Published ReferencesDavid Revere McFadden and Mark A. Clark, TREASURES FOR THE TABLE: SILVER FROM THE CHRYSLER MUSEUM, (Hudson Hills Press: New York, 1989), pp. 26, 44-45; no. 2 for illus.