Compote
Medium
Red-cut-to-clear-glass
Dimensions
9 1/4 × 10 1/4 in. (23.5 × 26 cm)
Classification
Compote
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Anne Cox Chambers Gift, 2014
Accession Number
2014.624
About the Artist
New England Glass Company|Cape Cod Glass Works · 1818–1888
**The New England Glass Company: Pioneers of American Flint Glass** The New England Glass Company was established on February 16, 1818, in East Cambridge, Massachusetts, by a quartet of prominent local businessmen: Amos Binney, Edmund Munroe, Daniel Hastings, and Deming Jarves. Jarves, drawing on his dry goods background and talent for recruiting Europe's finest cutters, served as operational man...