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D E L F T W A R E {Beverage Wares 
 
 
D221. WINE BOTTLE 
 
 
London, probably Southwark 
Dated 1642 
 
 
H.: 7 1/4" (18.4 cm); 
Diam. (body): 5" (12.7 cm); 
Diam. (with handle): 5 1/2" (14 cm) 
 
 
BODY CLAY: Fine-grained buff. 
TIN GLAZE: White with open crazing. 
Overall, excluding bottom and edge 
 
 
of foot. 
SHAPE: Thrown. Pulled handle, flat- 
 
 
tened on interior and exterior, with 
tapering lower terminal having some- 
what angular depression. Sl'ightly 
concave bottom, flattened near (chami 
fered) outer edge. 
DECORATION: Painted. Cartouche 
 
 
The grotesque cartouche, with figures derived from ornament on Italian 
maiolica, is unusual on English delftware and predates most scroll-and-foliate

types (see nos. D78, D235, D237). A closely comparable but multicolored car-

touche ornaments one 1641 dated bottle inscribed "RSE'E and "RENISH
WINE."' 
This beverage from the Rhineland was drunk for pleasure or for medicinal

reasons: the 1607 Englishman's Doctor informs us that "New Rhennish-wine
stirs 
vrine [urine]," and a posset recipe in the 1669 Closet of the Eminently
Learned Sir 
Kenelme Digbie, Kt. Opened includes Rhenish wine among other ingredients.'
The 
Longridge bottle may also have been intended for this type of wine, but other

alcoholic drink names, such as sack, white ("WHIT") wine, and claret
occur on 
more or less contemporary examples (see nos. D226-D228). 
 
 
formed of grotesques and loop motif. 
Inscribed "RPM/1642" over flourish. 
 
 
Published: Lipski and Archer, Dated 
Delftware, no, 1272. 
Ex coils,: C J. Lomax; Blyth; T G. Burn, 
Rous Lench. 
 
 
1. Lipski and Archer, Dated Delftware, no. 1270 
(British Museum collection, no. E.18). The ini- 
tials are misrecorded as "ISE" in Hodgkin and 
Hodgkin, Dated Pottery, no. 235. 
2. "Rhenish," Oxtord English Dictionary, vol. 8, 
p. 625; Charleston, English Glass, p. 119. 
 
 
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