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Inkstand

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

Date1820-1840

DimensionsRim Diam: 2 9/32 in. (5.8 cm); Base Diam: 2 7/32 in. (5.6 cm); H: 1 27/32 in. (3.9 cm)

MediumOlive-green bottle glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1971.94

Not on View

DescriptionBlown in a mold (McKearin G.III-29) of three vertical sections and a plain base plate. Lip and opening tooled to shape. Rough pontil mark.

Published ReferencesReferences 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.III-29, p. 256, pl. 94; p. 267; pl. 107, no. 3.

Wilson, Kenneth M., New England Glass and Glassmaking, Old Sturbridge Village Book, New York, Crowell, 1972, p. 166, fig. 123, center.

White, Harry Hall, "Keene, New Hampshire," Antiques, vol. 11, June 1927, pp. 459-463 (Reprint 1, pp. 157-160), pp. 459-463, fig. 10, p. 314.

White, Harry Hall, "More Light on Coventry and Its Products," pt. 1, "Railroad Flasks," Antiques, vol. 38, October 1940, pp. 166-168 (Reprint 1, pp. 147-149); pt. 2, "Flasks Other than 'Railroad,'" Antiques, vol. 38, November 1940, pp. 225-227 (Reprint 1, pp. 150-152); pt. 3, "Miscellaneous Products," Antiques, vol. 39, February 1941, pp. 79-82 (Reprint 1, pp. 153-156), pp. 79-80, fig. 4.

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. 247, no. 318.