Ink or Utility Bottle

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Ink or Utility Bottle

Place of OriginUnited States, possibly Stoddard, New Hampshire

Date1850-1865

DimensionsH: 7 3/8 in. (18.8 cm)

MediumDeep olive-green glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. C. S. Pease

Object number

1935.2

Not on View

DescriptionBlown in a three-piece mold consisting of a cylindrical body section and two sections above that formed the shoulder. Neck drawn out and formed by tooling. Sloping collar applied and formed by a special tool. The underside of the base is indented about 2.0 cm (13/16 in.), with a small nipple in the center, leaving a basal rim 1.2 cm (1/2 in.) wide around the edge. No pontil mark.

Published ReferencesMcKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, pp. 205-206.

Wilson, Kenneth M., New England Glass and Glassmaking, Old Sturbridge Village Book, New York, Crowell, 1972, pp. 168-172, fig. 132.

McKearin, Helen A., and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978, pp. 265-269, pl. 70.

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. 105, no. 26.