Art Institute of Chicago

Compote

Attributed to Boston and Sandwich Glass Company (American, 1825–88)

Date

1835–50

Medium

Pressed glass

Culture

Sandwich

Department

Arts of the Americas

Institution

Art Institute of Chicago

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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