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Ink Bottle

Datelate 19th-early 20th century
MediumWheel-thrown stoneware wth a light brown salt glaze
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (height x diameter): 9 x 3 1/2in. (22.9 x 8.9cm)
ClassificationsCeramics
Credit LineConnecticut Museum of Culture and History collection
DescriptionGrey stoneware ink bottle with a cone collar rim, sloping neck and shoulder, cylindrical body, and curved bottom. The ink bottle is glazed on the interior and exterior with a light brown salt glaze. To one side, near the bottom of the ink bottle, is an impressed mark, "VITREOUS STONE BOTTLES, CO./ WARRANTED NOT TO ABSORB,/ J. BOURNE & SON,/ PATENTEES./ DENBY & CODNOR PARK POTTERIES/ NEAR DERBY". There is one chip in the bottom edge of the ink bottle, revealing the stoneware below.
Object number1966.153.0
On View
Not on view
Bottle
Enfield Shaker Community
1860-1890
Ink Bottle
Unknown
1850-1900
Gift of the Richard Welling Family, 2011.465.34  © 2013 The Connecticut Historical Society.
Richard Welling
Gift of the Richard Welling Family, 2011.465.35  © 2013 The Connecticut Historical Society.
Richard Welling
Bottle
Pitkin Glass Works
1783-1830
Lamp
Wannopee Pottery Company
1892-1903
Fragments 1976.121.13c, 1976.121.14a, 1976.121.17, 1976.121.26, 1976.121.31a, 1976.121.37a, and…
James & Ralph Clews
late 18th-mid 19th century
Gift of Daniel Piotrowski in memory of Horace W. Sellers III, 2016.100.37 © 2016 The Connecticu…
Dr. Cyrus Pendleton
Top row: 2007.35.1 - 2007.35.3. Bottom row: 2007.35.4 - 2007.35.6. Far right: 2007.35.7.
Donnelly/Colt Progressive
1959-2002
Inkstand
Unknown
1785-1790
Perfume Bottle
Unknown
1830-1860