Ink Bottle

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Ink Bottle

Place of Originpossibly Southern New Jersey, United States

Date1874-1880

Dimensions2 1/16 × 11/16 in. (5.2 × 1.8 cm)
base: 2 3/16 × 1 7/16 in. (5.6 × 3.6 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.225

Not on View

DescriptionAqua glass. Blown in a mold of two vertical sections that formed the upper portions of the train's body and superstructure except the wheels, and a base plate that formed the wheels and underside of the piece and cracked off. Rim of smokestack rough ground. No pontil mark.

Published ReferencesRevi, Albert C., American Pressed Glass and Figure Bottles, New York and Toronto, Nelson, 1964, p. 391, bottom center.

William E. Covill, Jr., Ink Bottles and Inkwells, Taunton, Mass., W. S. Sullwold, 1971, repr. p. 163, fig. 715.

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. 898.