Attributed to Boston and Sandwich Glass Company (American, 1825–88)
Sandwich, Massachusetts
Compote
INV-3563
Attributed to Boston and Sandwich Glass Company (American, 1825–88)
Sandwich, Massachusetts1835–50
Compote
Attributed to Boston and Sandwich Glass Company (American, 1825–88) Sandwich, Massachusetts →compoteglass
Date
1835–50
Medium
Pressed glass
Dimensions
11.4 × 22.9 cm (4 1/2 × 9 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of the Antiquarian Society through Mrs. Philip K. Wrigley
The patterns on this rare compote—a peacock-feather border with a scrolled-eye center—were two of the most important and popular early-19th-century American patterns produced. For Americans, such pressed designs were less expensive and more accessible alternatives to the cut glass produced in Great Britain and Continental Europe.
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