An armorial 'onion' wine-bottle

LATE 17TH CENTURY

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An armorial 'onion' wine-bottle
Late 17th Century
Of olive-green tint, applied with a seal bearing a coat-of-arms (sable, on a cross argent, quarter-pierced of the field, four eagles displayed of the first, a moor's head couped proper, wreathed about the temples argent and azure), the short tapering neck with string-ring and with kick-in base (chips to rim and to string-ring, sea-washed and with shell encrustations)
6in. (15.2cm.) high

Lot Essay

The arms are those of Buller of Lillesdon, County Somerset and Shillingham and Morval, County Cornwall.

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