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Bottle ticket

Bottle ticket

  • Place of origin:

    London, England (made)

  • Date:

    1784-1785 (made)

  • Artist/Maker:

    E. Robinson and T. Phipps (maker)

  • Materials and Techniques:

    Engraved silver

  • Credit Line:

    P. J. Cropper Bequest

  • Museum number:

    M.434-1944

  • Gallery location:

    In Storage

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Bottle tickets identified the contents of a bottle or decanter, which might alternatively contain spirits, sauces, toilet waters or cordials. Contemporary gazettes begin to refer to ‘labels for bottles’ in the 1770s but it was not until the 1790s that they were established as wine or decanter labels.

These tickets also illustrate, in miniature, the skills of the silversmith over the last two hundred years. While the variety of styles and materials was enormous, silver bottle tickets tended to reflect fashionable designs and technical advances in metalware generally.

Physical description

Bottle Ticket, one of a set of four, "LISBON". Silver with engraved border of dogtooth design; above is a small oval cartouche raised on two scroll arms amd engraved with the crest for Cavendish (a snake knotted); chain attached.

Place of Origin

London, England (made)

Date

1784-1785 (made)

Artist/maker

E. Robinson and T. Phipps (maker)

Materials and Techniques

Engraved silver

Marks and inscriptions

Mark of TP over ER for Thomas Phipps and Edward Robinson
London hallmarks for 1784-5
Engraved with the crest for Cavendish, a snake knotted
LISBON

Dimensions

Height: 1.75 in, Length: 1.75 in

Object history note

Bequest - P. J. Cropper
per W J Sheldrick
Acquisition RF: 44 / 177

Descriptive line

Silver, London hallmarks for 1784-5, mark of E. Robinson and T. Phipps

Production Note

Reason For Production: Retail

Materials

Silver

Techniques

Engraving

Subjects depicted

Snake; Crest

Categories

Drinking; Metalwork

Production Type

Mass produced

Collection code

MET

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