Ink Bottle

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Ink Bottle

Place of OriginUnited States, possibly Southern New Jersey

Date1860-1880

Dimensions3 3/16 × 1 in. (8.1 × 2.5 cm)
base: 2 9/16 × 1 15/16 in. (6.5 × 5 cm)

Mediumcolorless glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.227

Not on View

DescriptionColorless glass with a bluish tinge. Blown in a mold of an indeterminate number of sections and cracked off. Plain flat base. Top of neck rough ground. Fire-polished. No pontil mark.

Published ReferencesCovill, William E., Jr., Ink Bottles and Inkwells, Taunton, Mass., W. S. Sullwold, 1971, repr. p. 155, fig. 677.

Austen, Ferol, Poor Man's Guide to Bottle Collecting, Doubleday: Garden City, N.Y., 1971, repr. p. 111, fig. 45, top 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. 543, no. 897.