Objects
Bottle
Alcohol
Consumption
470ml
[Taken from catalogue entry]
A Southwark delft dated blue and white sack bottle. Dated 1662. With strap handle, labeled for ‘sack’ in underglaze blue, inscribed 1662 above a flourish below.
This type of vessel is known as a ‘Sack Bottle’ because many are inscribed with the word ‘sack’ and a date, usually around the mid- seventeenth century. They also often depict Royalist emblems (see V&A refs C.1042-1922 and C.114-1938), perhaps due to wine-drinking being more closely associated with the Court, and Royalist supporters.
Sack is a term used to describe white, fortified wine imported from Spain or the Canary Islands. Sack was probably sweet, matured in wooden barrels, perhaps closest to sherry.
According to sale catalogue notes, this is one of the latest dates to appear on similar bottles.
It is thought that more of these survive than contemporary, more utilitarian vessels because they were seen as display items, not often actually used.
[The vessel's capacity of 470ml closely fits that of a wine pint; 473ml]
Production
Dates of Production: exact 1662
Southwark, London, England
Materials
Earthenware
Earthenware- white
Museological Details
D.O.C/36
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