Gillinder & Sons Westward Ho Glass
date: label: date made
content: c. 1878-1890
name: label: maker
content: Gillinder & Sons
notes: label: Description
content: Gillinder and Sons made this footed-glass compote with a representation of a kneeling Native American on the lid in 1879. The Westward Ho pattern refers to the etching on the bowl of the settler’s cabin and land, which portrayed a romanticized image of the progress of western land development.
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
topic: label: decorative motif
content: Indians
label: decorative motif
content: Native Americans
label: decorative motif
content: West
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content: Home and Community Life: Ceramics and Glass
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content: Art
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content: Domestic Furnishings
label: Exhibition
content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.0247.07ab
label: accession number
content: 1979.0247
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0247.07b
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bowl, sugar
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: "colorless" (bowl, body color)
label: Physical Description
content: "colorless" (foot color)
label: Physical Description
content: glass, transparent (cover material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass, transparent (cover, side material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass, transparent (foot material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass, translucent (bowl, body material)
label: Physical Description
content: frosted (joint piece production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: pressed (bowl, body production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: pressed (foot production method/technique)