Inkwell

Item Information

Title:
Inkwell
Description:
Salt-glazed stoneware inkwell and quill holder of sound shape straight sides, thrown and pierced with three holes on top for ink and two quills; solid and somwhat crude with a sandy grey color.
Date:
1800–1850
Format:
Objects/Artifacts
Genre:
glazing (coating process)
salt glaze
stoneware (pottery)
throwing (pottery technique)
inkwells
Location:
Historic New England
Collection (local):
Digitized Museum Collections
Subjects:
Stoneware
Salt-Glazed
Thrown
Places:
Massachusetts > Essex (county) > Essex
Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.)
Extent:
1.5 in. (H) Diameter: 3.25 in.
Link to Item:
http://gusn.us/2909
Terms of Use:
Rights status not evaluated.
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Notes:
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
Accession #:
1991.1380
Identifier:
2909