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Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 143, The Timothy Sainsbury Gallery

Wine Bottle

ca. 1680 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Wine bottle of salt-glazed stoneware, with a mottled grey-brown glaze, and bulbous in form with a narrow neck, and moulded at the mouth, with a small foot, and on the front of the neck is applied a grotesque bearded mask in relief, and on the belly is an oval medallion containing a fleur-de-lys beneath a crown flanked by the initials 'C' and 'R'.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Salt-glazed stoneware and moulded
Brief description
Wine bottle of salt-glazed stoneware, bulbous in form with a narrow neck, and moulded at the mouth, with a small foot, made by John Dwight's Fulham Pottery, Fulham, ca. 1680.
Physical description
Wine bottle of salt-glazed stoneware, with a mottled grey-brown glaze, and bulbous in form with a narrow neck, and moulded at the mouth, with a small foot, and on the front of the neck is applied a grotesque bearded mask in relief, and on the belly is an oval medallion containing a fleur-de-lys beneath a crown flanked by the initials 'C' and 'R'.
Dimensions
  • Height: 20.3cm
Marks and inscriptions
'C' and 'R' flanked on either side of a crown and a fleur-de-lys below it (On the belly of the bottle and in a medallion, initials stand for Carolus Rex)
Credit line
Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber
Subjects depicted
Other number
Sch. II 56 - Schreiber number
Collection
Accession number
414:850-1885

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Record createdFebruary 17, 2009
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