Additional information needed: A photograph of the interior of the compote's bowl. Contrary to Feller's comment, below, the cut pattern differs significantly from that used on Dorflinger's Guard vase. This additional information is important because we have all-too-few examples of middle-period cut glass that can be assigned without doubt to a specific glassworks and that can also be precisely dated.
from Feller, 1988, pp. 15-16:
In 1860, the Dorflinger Guard presented a cut and engraved compote to William C. Fowler, an importer of drugs, who may have been one of Dorflinger's 1852 backers and who later entered the glass business when he formed a partnership with Mahlon Crampton, purchasing the Plymouth Street glasshouse in 1870. The compote, whose bowl is cut quite similarly to the Dorflinger vase, has a scalloped rim, hollow stem, and thirty-two point star on the base. The Dorflinger Guard vase and compote were also the products of the Long Island Flint Glass Works.(footnote, p. 24):
Although the present owner of the comppote declined to make available a photograph, the Fowler piece was discussed and illustrated in Helen Barger et al, "The Dorflinger Guard Presents", The Glass Club Bulletin, No. 136, pp. 1, 3-4 (winter 1981-82).
Label at the Corning Museum of Glass:
Compote.
U. S. A., Brooklyn, New York, Geenpoint Glass Works of Christian Dorflinger, 1860.
2003.4.109, gift of Kenneth and Cheryl Lyon in memory of Velma Lyon.
This compote was a gift to W. C. Fowler of Brooklyn, who was a supplier of raw materials to the Dorflinger company. It was presented on October 20, 1860.
Updated 21 Aug 2007