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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.
inkwells
glazing (coating)
salt glaze
stoneware (pottery)
throwing (pottery technique)
Stoneware
Salt-Glazed
Thrown
INKWELL
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
991.1380
Unknown
1.5 (H), 3.25 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1380
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