Compote
Boston and Sandwich Glass Company
1835–1850
- Medium
- Pressed glass
- Dimensions
- 11.4 × 22.9 cm (4 1/2 × 9 in.)
- Genre
- compote
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
american artsglassamerican decorative artscompotedecorative artsvessel for serving food
About
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.
