Not on display

Bottle Ticket

ca. 1810 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Bottle tickets identified the contents of a bottle or decanter, which might alternatively contain spirits, sauces, toilet waters or cordials. Here the contents would have been raisin wine.

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. The decorative moulding you can see round the edges of this ticket is called reeding. 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

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Silver, with double reeded edge
Brief description
Silver, no hallmarks, London ca.1810, mark of Phipps and Robinson.
Physical description
Bottle ticket with the words RAISIN WINE. Silver, crescent with double reeded edge and chain attached.
Dimensions
  • Height: 1.5in
  • Length: 1.25in
Marks and inscriptions
  • Mark of TP above ER for Phipps and Robinson
  • No hallmarks
  • RAISIN WINE
Credit line
P. J. Cropper Bequest
Object history
Acquisition RF: 44 / 177
Bequest - P.J. Cropper
per W J Sheldrick
Summary
Bottle tickets identified the contents of a bottle or decanter, which might alternatively contain spirits, sauces, toilet waters or cordials. Here the contents would have been raisin wine.

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. The decorative moulding you can see round the edges of this ticket is called reeding. 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.378-1944

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Record createdMarch 3, 2004
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