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Inkstand

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

Date1820-1840

DimensionsRim Diam: 1 25/32 in. (4.5 cm); Base Diam: 1 29/32 in. (4.8 cm); H: 1 27/32 in. (4.7 cm)

MediumOlive-green bottle glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1971.95

Not on View

DescriptionBlown in a mold (McKearin G.II-18) of three vertical sections and a base plate (McKearin Diamond Type X). 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. 14; p. 314; pl. 107, no. 6.

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. 316.