Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2012.

"Electric Blue" Compote

Manufacturer Boston & Sandwich Glass Co. (American, 1826-1888)

CultureAmerican

Date1845-55

MediumPressed glass

DimensionsHeight: 6 3/8 in. (16.2 cm)
Base: 5 3/8 in. (13.7 cm)
Overall, Rim: 8 7/8 × 10 3/8 in. (22.5 × 26.4 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase with contributions from Kathryn K. Porter and The Chrysler Museum Glass Club

Object number86.394

Collections

Glass Art

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DescriptionCompote of pressed lacy electric blue glass. Oval top with a design of two princess feather medallion. Four basket of fruit/flowers on each side. Scroll ends. Various scroll design bottom. Background is stippled. Attached with wafer to the plain hollow, hexagonal stem & foot. Slight roughage & one flake. See bowl/dish GAS.59.586 for same design & GAS.73.5, same except for grape border.

Published ReferencesR.W. Lee, SANDWICH GLASS, pl. 147, pg. 384. Spillman, AMERICAN & EUROPEAN PRESSED GLASS, (Corning: NY), #269, color plate 2. McKearin, AMERICAN GLASS, pl. 161. Judith Miller. A CLOSER LOOK AT ANTIQUES: A VISUAL GUIDE TO IDENTIFYING, DATING & AUTHENTICATING. London: Marshall Editions Ltd. 2000. pp. 173, 181. Diane C. Wright (editor), _Glass Masterworks from the Chrysler Museum of Art_ (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2017), pg. 92-93.