Bottle Ticket
1809-1810 (made)
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Cayenne is a pungent sauce made from dried and ground capsicum seeds and pods.
The history of bottle tickets provides a fascinating insight into English eating, drinking and personal habits.They were peculiarly English and never became fashionable abroad. 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. Their function was to identify the contents of a bottle or decanter, which might alternatively contain spirits, sauces, toilet waters or cordials. These tickets also illustrate in miniature, the skills of the silversmith over the last two hundred years. While the variety of styles and materials were enormous, silver bottle tickets tended to reflect fashionable designs in metalware generally. Makers were quick to adapt the many technical advances of the 18th and 19th centuries to the design of bottle tickets.
The history of bottle tickets provides a fascinating insight into English eating, drinking and personal habits.They were peculiarly English and never became fashionable abroad. 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. Their function was to identify the contents of a bottle or decanter, which might alternatively contain spirits, sauces, toilet waters or cordials. These tickets also illustrate in miniature, the skills of the silversmith over the last two hundred years. While the variety of styles and materials were enormous, silver bottle tickets tended to reflect fashionable designs in metalware generally. Makers were quick to adapt the many technical advances of the 18th and 19th centuries to the design of bottle tickets.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Silver |
| Brief description | Silver, mark of Samuel Whitford II, London hallmarks for 1809-10 |
| Physical description | Bottle ticket, "CAYENNE". Silver, oblong with a loop at the top and a wire ring for attachments. |
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| Production type | Mass produced |
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| Credit line | Given by J. H. Fitzhenry |
| Object history | J.H. Fitzhenry Gift |
| Production | Reason For Production: Retail |
| Summary | Cayenne is a pungent sauce made from dried and ground capsicum seeds and pods. The history of bottle tickets provides a fascinating insight into English eating, drinking and personal habits.They were peculiarly English and never became fashionable abroad. 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. Their function was to identify the contents of a bottle or decanter, which might alternatively contain spirits, sauces, toilet waters or cordials. These tickets also illustrate in miniature, the skills of the silversmith over the last two hundred years. While the variety of styles and materials were enormous, silver bottle tickets tended to reflect fashionable designs in metalware generally. Makers were quick to adapt the many technical advances of the 18th and 19th centuries to the design of bottle tickets. |
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| Accession number | 1280-1903 |
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| Record created | September 10, 2004 |
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