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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Footed compote
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.

Footed compote

Manufacturer Crosby & Morse
CultureAmerican
Dateca. 1865
MediumSilver
DimensionsOverall: 10 1/4 x 10 1/8 in. (26 x 25.7 cm)
InscribedFour inset screws marked on bottom: " Crosby & Morse" (lion, anchor, gothic G) "160".
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object number77.504
Not on view
DescriptionFooted compote. Tray support in design of classical Greek female, draped with one breast exposed, hands over head. Tray is detachable.

Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
Clark & Biddle
ca. 1865
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Ball, Black & Co.
ca. 1860
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Moses Morse
ca. 1815-1830
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Gorham Manufacturing Company
ca. 1870
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Edward Morse
1905
Image captured from the NEH Myers Conservation Survey by Carey Howlett.
Unknown
ca. 1825
Image captured from the NEH Myers Conservation Survey by Carey Howlett.
Unknown
ca. 1825
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Hiram Powers
modeled 1866
4x5 transparency scanned on Hasselblad Flextight X1 by Ed Pollard-2010.
Adolphe-William Bouguereau
1862
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
E. F. Caldwell & Co., Inc
ca. 1870