Bottle ticket, "MADEIRA"

Dateca. 1780

Maker James Phipps I

MediumSilver

DimensionsL: 2 3/16"

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number1971-91

Description"MADEIRA" Bottle ticketLabel TextThe Phipps family, like the Batemans, produced a large number of handsome and well-executed bottle tickets in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Most of these are in the neoclassical taste, often, as in this instance, with bright-cut borders. This example of scroll form and CWF accession 1971-92 of goblet and crescent form are common late eighteenth-century types.
Inscription(s)Unidentified crest engraved on face. "MADEIRA" engraved on face.Mark(s)Maker's mark (I P) only twice on backProvenanceSotheby & Co., London (1971). Acquired by CWF in 1971.