Bottle (guglet)
Liverpool, England
1790-1795
Measurements
9-1/2 in x 6 in (dia)
Materials
Transfer-printed white earthenware (creamware)
Credit Line
Historic Odessa Foundation, The David Wilson Mansion, Inc.
Accession Number
1971.727
Inscription
Inscription: “SUCCESS TO THE WILMINGTON / JAMES JEFFERIS MASTER / JAMES & DEBBY JEFFERIS”
“SWEET POLL / OF / PLYMOUTH” and “Our Anchor weigh'd for Sea we stood / The Land we left behind / Her Tears then swell'd the briny flood / Her sighs increas'd the Wind” and “And have they torn my Love away / And is he gone she cried / My Polly sweetest flower of May / She languish'd droop'd and died”
Condition Notes
The rim has a stress crack. A large chip in the rim has been restored. The outside edge of the base has small fills.
Provenance
Ex coll. Mrs. E. Tatnall (Mary Corbit) Warner
Comments
The decoration incorporates the inscription “SUCCESS TO THE WILMINGTON / JAMES JEFFERIS MASTER / JAMES & DEBBY JEFFERIS” which, like a pitcher, accession no. 1971.0726, can be reliably documented to Ann Jefferis’s father, Capt. James Jefferis (c. 1758–1822). The accession number indicates that it was on-site at the Wilson-Warner House and part of the 1968 David Wilson House-Winterthur merger.
Bottles of this shape and purpose were sometimes called guglets.
