Bottle Ticket
1826-1827 (made)
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This silver label would have hung round the neck of a bottle of claret. Claret is the English term for the light, red wine of Bordeaux in south-west France. It was treated for the English market to make a strong wine with good flavour but ‘heady and not suitable for all stomachs’.
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.
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.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Silver |
| Brief description | Silver, London hallmarks for 1826-7, mark of Robert Garrard II |
| Physical description | Bottle ticket (one of a set of four) with the word CLARET (pierced lettering). Silver, pierced and repousse, a buck statant upon a wreath with the motto J'AI BONNE CAUSE (Thynne, Marquess of Bath), the whole enclosed within a ribbon to the ends of which a chain is attached. |
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| Gallery label | "CLARET"
London, 1826-7
Mark of Robert Garrard II
One of a set of four with the crest and motto for Thynne, Marquess of Bath
M.999-1944(2000) |
| Credit line | P. J. Cropper Bequest |
| Object history | Acquisition RF: 44 / 177 Bequest - P.J. Cropper per W J Sheldrick From four “Claret” |
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| Summary | This silver label would have hung round the neck of a bottle of claret. Claret is the English term for the light, red wine of Bordeaux in south-west France. It was treated for the English market to make a strong wine with good flavour but ‘heady and not suitable for all stomachs’. 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. |
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| Accession number | M.999-1944 |
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| Record created | March 3, 2004 |
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