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Early American Cut Glass Compote c.1830. For Show

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cagney:
  Another compote in the same patternhttps://metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/16738
  Decanter rich cut [ faceted neck rings, star cut foot, etc.] https://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/58047

  The smallest cut glass three ring decanter I have ever seen from this period. It literally fits inside a cut tumbler of the same period.

  Still have a photo of your goblet. They are kinda rare in American cut glass from this period.

flying free:
oh the goblet turned out to be Saint-Louis but I originally thought it was American.  I can't quite remember now why I looked up Bakewell Pears but in the end  I wrote to maybe the Boston and Sandwich curator(?) and they said not theirs.

Thanks for the extra photographs.  I wonder why the small decanter is so small and what it was to hold?  Perhaps a one person whisky decanter?

cagney:
  I really don't know. I will say it approximates the size of several different forms [bitters and colognes] but does not conform to any I have seen. I think it an actual decanter. Whatever it was meant to hold was probably very dear or expensive, or both.

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