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Inkstand

Manufacturer Coventry Glass Works (American, 1813-1850)

Place of OriginCoventry, Connecticut, United States

Date1815-1840

Dimensions1 7/8 × 2 5/8 × 2 5/8 in. (4.7 × 6.7 × 6.7 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.201

Not on View

DescriptionOlive-green bottle glass. Blown in a mold (McKearin G.II-18) of three vertical sections and a plain base plate. Lip and opening tooled to shape. Rough pontil mark.

Published ReferencesCharles B. Gardner, "Connecticut Glass," Antiques, vol. 28, September 1935, pp. 101-103, fig. 3 (Reprint 1, pp. 144-146).

White, Harry Hall, "More Light on Coventry and Its Products," pt. 1, "Railroad Flasks," Antiques, vol. 38, October 1940, pp. 166-168 (Reprint 1, pp. 147-149); pt. 2, "Flasks Other than 'Railroad,'" Antiques, vol. 38, November 1940, pp. 225-227 (Reprint 1, pp. 150-152); pt. 3, "Miscellaneous Products," Antiques, vol. 39, February 1941, pp. 79-82 (Reprint 1, pp. 153-156), pp. 79-82, fig. 2.

McKearin, George S., and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948; McKearin, Helen and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978; etc., G.II-18, p. 251, pl. 88; p. 314, pl. 120, nos. 2, 3.

Wilson, Kenneth M., New England Glass and Glassmaking, Old Sturbridge Village Book, New York, Crowell, 1972, p. 116; p. 117, fig. 71B, center.

Wilson, Kenneth M., American Glass, 1760-1930: The Toledo Museum of Art, New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Toledo Museum of Art, [Lanham, Md.]: National Book Network [distributor], c1994; 2 v. (879 p.): ill. (some col.); 32 cm., 1994, p. 246, no. 314.