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Inkstand

Place of OriginNew England, United States

Date1820-1840

Dimensions1 7/8 × 1 15/16 × 1 7/8 in. (4.7 × 4.9 × 4.8 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.203

Not on View

DescriptionLight clear green bottle glass. Blown in a mold (McKearin G.II-18) of three vertical sections and a base plate (McKearin Diamond Type XI). Collar around the opening tooled to shape from the same gather as the body or from an applied bit. Small, rough pontil mark.

Published ReferencesMcKearin, 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; p. 267, pl. 107, no. 6.

Austen, Ferol, Poor Man's Guide to Bottle Collecting, Doubleday: Garden City, N.Y., 1971, repr. p. 111, fig. 45.

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. 247, no. 317.