Three sealed wine bottles, circa 1780-1800
Of narrow-bodied 'Cylinder' form in olive-green glass, the necks trailed with string rims, applied to the side with circular seals, one with the Carew family crest of a sinister hand apaumée flanked by the initials 'T C', 27.8cm high, another inscribed 'Lin Coll', 27.9cm high, together with a half size bottle with the Bagot family crest of a goat's head issuing from a ducal coronet surmounted by a baron's coronet, a paper label inscribed 'Elderflower Water 80' below, the contents intact, 22.3cm high excluding cork (3)
Footnotes:
Provenance
David Burton Collection

Literature
David Burton, Antique Sealed Bottles (2015), pp.1181-2, 1384-5 and 1397-8

The Carew bottle can be attributed to Sir Thomas Carew, 6th Baronet (circa 1755-1805), of Haccombe House in Newton Abbot, Devon. The version of the seal on the example for Lincoln College, Oxford, lacks the usual 'CR' and is therefore particularly rare. The Bagot bottle was part of a cellar of bottles bearing this crest, both half and full size, sold by the family in 2006.