A very rare sealed half size 'Onion' wine bottle of possible Scottish interest, dated 1718

Of olive-green tint, the straight-sided bulbous body with a short tapering neck and prominent string rim, applied just below the shoulder with a seal inscribed '.Uric./ 1718' in script beneath a palm frond, within a beaded border, with a deep basal 'kick-up', 13.9cm high

Footnotes

Provenance

With Neil Willcox, 4 October 1999

A C Hubbard Jr Collection

Literature

Ward Lloyd, A Wine Lover's Glasses (2000), p.110, pl.164

David Burton, Antique Sealed Bottles (2015), p.584

The seal may relate to Urie in Stonehaven, Kincardineshire, Scotland, which was home to the Barclay family formerly of Mather's and Urie. Colonel David Barclay (1610-1686) purchased the lands and barony of Urie in 1647. This bottle may be connected with his grandson Robert Barclay, 3rd Baron Urie (1672-1747), who inherited the barony or Urie upon the death of his father in 1690. Another possible connection could be the United East India Company, which controlled Britain's trade to and from India and other Asian countries. The Company marked their bales UEIC prior to shipment from the Thameside wharves. No other bottles with this seal would appear to be recorded.

In fabulous original condition some minor loss to the Saturn string rim and some imperfections to the blown glass all original to time of manufacture otherwise perfect

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