Bottle

Collection object


1992.0095
H. 25.1 D. base 6.2 D. Stopper D. 3.9
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Bottle, glass; sherry, full. Brown glass bottle, straight sided, rounded shoulder, long neck with slight swelling towards bottom. Rectangular label reading "Finest Old Sherry/ Superior/ Amontillado/ Pasado/ W.H. White & Co./ Limerick.", with printer's name "Dollard Dublin" at bottom right. Label printed in pinkish brown and black, on white; label has large central oval, with leaf motifs in spandrels; on a festoon between the top spandrels and above text is a coat of arms; arms divided in three horizontally, upper field three recumbent crescents, middle field a town/castle gate with flanking towers, lower field a recumbent crescent; feathered helm crest with two greyhound supporters. Bottle has a cork and white plastic topped stopper; top of stopper has, in black, "Whites/ Limerick" and a depiction of a bottle and three glasses; black plastic seal, broken, around stopper. Moulded on bottom of bottle "I G B/ 228L8/ LXII"