Description:
Set of four dark green, blown glass case bottles, with a seal at the shoulder marked "JWL" with fish and interlaced triangles making a six-pointed star. Three of the four bottles (not C) have corks with copper tops. These are often associated with gin or "Geneva"; however, they also contained cordials. Green case bottles were made square to fit into partitioned wooden cases that held 4-16 bottles. Before about 1650, they were the only types of wine bottles made in England, often mounted with pewter or latten brass screw tops. Although many English examples have been found in the earliest colonial sites, inventory lists indicate that most case bottles used in colonial American came from the Continent. English glasshouses had switched production to the less difficult globular wine bottles, and may have only resumed production of green case bottles in the late 1760's at the instigation of American merchants who wanted to avoid the heavy duty on imported glass. The square bottles have a narrow flared lip over a cylindrical neck; over broad rounded shoulders over four flat sides tapered to a flat base.
Subjects:
Glass; Copper Link to share this object record:
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