Footed compote with cover

mid-nineteenth century

Place made, possiblyEngland

Place made, possiblyNorth America

Glass

Overall: 10 x 8 in. ( 25.4 x 20.3 cm )

Gift of Lena Cadwalader Evans

1936.693ab

According to the accession records, this object belonged to either Abigail Cornell (1766-1854), who married Israel Corse in 1810, or to Angeline Burr, wife of Morris Ketchum (1796-1880).

DescriptionColorless cut lead glass compote with cover; hemispherical bowl cut with strawberry diamonds, with wide horizontal scalloped rim cut with strawberry diamonds and fans, on faceted pedestal stem with central knop cut with diagonal ribs, on flat scalloped base cut underneath with rays radiating from center; domed cover cut with strawberry diamonds, with large mushroom-shaped finial cut with strawberry diamonds on short stem with central knop cut with diagonal ribs.

ClassificationsGLASS

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