LOOP / LEAF OPEN COMPOTE / DISH ON FOOT

LOOP / LEAF OPEN COMPOTE / DISH ON FOOT, bright canary yellow (reacts under black light) lead glass, seven-loop bowl, raised on a hexagonal baluster-form standard stepped to a circular panel-top foot, wafer construction. Boston & Sandwich Glass Co. and others. 1850-1870. 6 3/8" H, 8 7/8" DOA, 4 3/4" D foot.
Virtually undamaged with a single flake to the base edge.
Literature: Parallels Barlow/Kaiser - The Glass Industry in Sandwich, Vol. 1, p. 154, fig. 1150.
Provenance: From the collection of the late Alexander Hierholzer (Holt) and Harry Saunders, Philadelphia, PA.
Catalogue Note: This is only the third example of a canary seven-loop compote we have sold.
Condition Report: Virtually undamaged with a single flake to the base edge.