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EARLY THUMBPRINT / ARGUS SPHERICAL COVERED COMPOTE

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EARLY THUMBPRINT / ARGUS SPHERICAL COVERED COMPOTE, colorless, bowl featuring a 32-scallop rim above seven rows of thumbprints, joined by a wafer to a 12-flute double-step hollow standard and a 24-scallop circular foot with a single row of 24 thumbprints underneath, cover with a corresponding number of rim points and rows of thumbprints, surmounted by an eight-lobe finial. Bakewell, Pears & Co . 1850-1870. 18 1/2" high overall, 11 3/4" high base, 10 1/8" to 10 1/4" diameter rim, 7" diameter foot .
Reference: Spillman, fig. 983, illustrates a smaller example.
McKearin Am. Glass, pl. 213, fig. 7, illustrates a smaller example.
Innes, p. 339, pl. 360, illustrates a smaller example.
Frick/Pittsburgh, cat. 103, illustrates a smaller example.
Provenance: The Duff & Molly Allen Collection. Bea Cohen Antiques, 9/6/84
Note: This and the following compotes represent one of the most important and iconic specimens of Early American pressed pattern glass. Examples in various sizes reside in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Corning Museum of Glass. This example is the second largest of the four sizes produced and is very difficult to locate. The complete set was illustrated and cataloged together for the first time in our 9/30/06 catalog of the Harry Hoffman collection. The cover on the example offered here measures 1/8" to 1/4" smaller in diameter than the base; but it is most certainly original since two of the other larger sizes that we have sold have also exhibited this slight size difference

The base is absolutely proof, the cover inner flange is also without damage, but most of the outer rim points have minor to moderate chipping, and one area of significant chipping. All in all this would still grade in above average condition

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