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Inkstand

Manufacturer Coventry Glass Works (American, 1813-1850)

Place of OriginCoventry, Connecticut, United States

Date1815-1840

Dimensions1 3/4 × 2 3/16 × 2 in. (4.5 × 5.6 × 5.1 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.202

Not on View

DescriptionOlive-green bottle glass. Blown in a mold (McKearin G.II-2) of three vertical sections and a plain base plate. Lip and opening tooled to shape. Rough pontil mark.

Published ReferencesWhite, 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. 3.

References to glass classifications established in 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-2, p. 250, pl. 87; p. 313; pl. 120, no. 4.

Wilson, Kenneth M., New England Glass and Glassmaking, Old Sturbridge Village Book, New York, Crowell, 1972, p. 117, fig. 72.

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. 313.