Description |
The tall conical neck with multi-rings and a plain roll lip, looped and grooved handle with pointed lower terminal , small beaded or ridge around the foot rim dipped in a dark brown freckled glaze. These ale bottles played an important part in the export of strong ale, and many potteries in and around London found that producing stoneware bottles was a lucrative business; known to have been produced at Vauxhall, Fulham, Southwark, and Lamberth potteries
Provenance - The Mavis Bimson collection. Mavis Bimson was a Scientific Officer at the British Museum, well respected author of ceramics and avid collector of rare salt glaze stoneware examples |