Gillinder & Sons
“Westward Ho!” Covered Compote
1874-1904
Physical Qualities
Glass, Overall (Compote with lid): 14 1/4 × 8 × 8 in. (36.2 × 20.3 × 20.3 cm.)
Overall (Lid): 8 × 8 × 8 in. (20.3 × 20.3 × 20.3 cm.)
Overall (Compote): 6 1/8 × 8 × 8 in. (15.6 × 20.3 × 20.3 cm.)
Credit Line
Purchase with exchange funds from Bequest of R. Elisabeth Arens and Adelaide Arens Morawetz, from the Estate of Henry Arens; Bequest of Ellen Howard Bayard; Bequest of Jane James Cook; Nelson and Juanita Greif Gutman Collection; and Gift of Mrs. Jesse Manion
Object Number
1992.119
The figure of a Native man crouches atop a glass compote, a dish used to serve fruit and jellies. The dish is decorated with a landscape filled with bounding deer, a buffalo, and a
log cabin. Gillinder & Sons’ Westward Ho! pattern expresses Manifest Destiny. This white supremacist 19th-century belief asserted that Euro-Americans had a divine mandate
to expand their government and religion into western lands at the expense of all Indigenous people who stood in their path. Colonizers forcibly claimed, exploited, and abused the resources depicted in scenes such as this one.
Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase with exchange funds, 1992; E.J. Canton Antiques, Lutherville, MD by purchase; R. Elisabeth Arens and Adelaide Arens Morawetz from the Estate of Henry Arens by bequest; Ellen Howard Bayard by bequest; Jane James Cook; Nelson and Juanita Greif by gift; Mrs. Jesse Manion
Curry, David Park. "Westward Ho...(!)" Huffington Post Contributor, The Blog. Mar 29, 2013, 03:44 PM EDT [Updated Dec 6, 2017]; https://www.huffpost.com/entry/westward-ho_b_2978948
Curry, David Park. "Reynolda: Her Muses, Her Stories," Winston-Salem, NC: Reynolda House Museum of American Art, 2017.
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