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Covered Compote

Covered Compote, ca. 1825

  • White Glass Works, American, 1815-1852

Midwestern free blown glass

  • Overall: 8 1/2 × 6 1/2 inches (21.6 × 16.5 cm)

Founders Society Purchase with funds from Robert H. Tannahill

36.3

Department

American Art before 1950

Details

Harry Hall White

1936-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Bulletin of the DIA 15, 4 (January 1936). Bulletin of the DIA 16, 3 (December 1936).

White Glass Works, Covered Compote, ca. 1825, midwestern free blown glass. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from Robert H. Tannahill, 36.3.

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