Bottle Ticket
1843-1844 (made)
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This bottle ticket would have hung round the neck of a bottle or decanter of sherry. This fortified wine comes from the area around Jerez de la Frontera in southern Spain.
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, pierced and engraved |
| Brief description | Silver, mark of Rawlings and Summers, London hallmarks for 1843-1844 |
| Physical description | Bottle ticket with the word SHERRY. Silver, pierced and engraved, oblong with border of scrolled strapwork, chain attached. |
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| Credit line | P. J. Cropper Bequest |
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| Summary | This bottle ticket would have hung round the neck of a bottle or decanter of sherry. This fortified wine comes from the area around Jerez de la Frontera in southern Spain. 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. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | M.1063-1944 |
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| Record created | December 23, 2004 |
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