Description: One of a pair; colorless, lead glass compote, freeblown with pressed base, circular bowl with folded over (inward or outward?) rim; the bowl is attached to the base by two wafers of glass (a small one and a larger one); the pressed base has a faceted, hexagonal stem ending in a stepped pedestal, base is square with three rounded corners, the interior of the pressed base is smooth; base pressed in a one-piece female mold that formed the shape by a plain male plunger, with a cap ring formed the underside of the perimeter of the base. Condition: one of the bowls has a small hairline (crack) or deep curving scratch within the bowl –
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