Inkwell and Stopper

Place of OriginMillville, New Jersey, United States

Date1900-1910

Dimensionsheight with stopper: 8 5/16 in. (21.1 cm)
height without stopper: 5 11/16 × 2 3/4 × 1 1/2 in. (14.5 × 7 × 3.8 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.540

Not on View

DescriptionPaperweight base and stopper made in the same manner as 1917.499, but with mottled colors from chips of red, blue, yellow, and green glass. Inkwell: blown and tooled hollow container applied to top of paperweight base. Rough pontil mark. Stopper: tooled to fit neck of container. Rough pontil mark at end. Colorless glass with a greenish tinge.

Published ReferencesMinns, Edward W., "Paperweight Making as Done at Millville," American Collector, November 1938, pp. 8-9, third illustration.

Pepper, Adeline, The Glass Gaffers of New Jersey and Their Creations from 1739 to the Present, New York, Scribner's, 1971, p. 260, pl. 17.

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. 561, no. 940.