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Inkstand

Manufacturer Keene (Marlboro Street) Glass Works (American, 1814-1841)

Date1820-1840

DimensionsRim Diam: 2 19/32 in. (6.6 cm); Base Diam: 2 5/8 in. (6.7 cm); H: 2 in. (5.1 cm)

MediumOlive-green bottle glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1971.93

Not on View

DescriptionBlown in a mold (McKearin G.II-18) of three vertical sections and a base plate (McKearin Diamond Type VIII). Lip and opening tooled to shape. Rough pontil mark.

Published ReferencesWhite, Harry Hall, "Keene, New Hampshire," Antiques, vol. 11, June 1927, pp. 459-463 (Reprint 1, pp. 157-160), pp. 459-463, fig. 10.

References to glass classifications established in McKearin, 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. 261, pl. 100, no. 12; p. 314; pl. 120, nos. 5, 5a.

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. 246, no. 315.