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

Compote

Manufacturer Libbey Glass Co. (American, 1888-)
CultureAmerican
Dateca. 1860
MediumBlown glass
DimensionsOverall: 8 in. (20.3 cm)
Overall, Rim: 10 in. (25.4 cm)
Base: 2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Florence L. Smith
Object number52.18.33
On View
Not on view
DescriptionCompote of blown colorless cased cobalt blue glass. Twelve-panel design topped with a new moon-like cut and a cut bracket rim on a matching hollow overlay stem with an eight-paneled and punty cut, central knop with diagonal cuts. Part of a set: see 2 plates 52.18.35 and .36.

Label TextNew England Glass Company American (1818-1888) Compote, ca. 1855-65 Blown cased glass, cut Bequest of Florence L. Smith 52.18.33 This compote cased in blue glass over colorless lead glass 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 Company employee Thomas H. Leighton. The New England Glass Company, which showed similar glassware (sometimes called Americo-Bohemian glass) at the New York Crystal Palace in 1853, was one of the most important American makers of glass in the Bohemian style. Added by: AGMPublished ReferencesWatkins, _Cambridge Glass_, Mrs. Smith's annotated copy.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Libbey Glass Co.
ca. 1860
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Libbey Glass Co.
ca. 1860
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Libbey Glass Co.
ca. 1860
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
New England Glass Company
ca. 1860
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New England Glass Company
ca. 1855
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Unknown
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
W.H., B & J Richardson
ca. 1845
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Unknown
ca. 1850-1870
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Unknown
ca. 1905-1910
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon  EOS 5D Mark II digital slr-2010.
Unknown
ca. 1840-1850
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Unknown
ca. 1855
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Boston & Sandwich Glass Co.
ca. 1870