This bottle was salvaged from the wreck of 't Vliegent Hart which went down in 1735 not far from the Dutch coast. There has been a remarkable number of bottles on board, resembling the form of a carafe, which is characteristic of the beginning of the 18th Century. This is explained by the fact that only at the end of the 17th Century the modern form of corked wine bottles was invented. The wine bottles on board of the Vliegent Hart came most probably from glassworks in Middelburg, the first Dutch town where bottle-factories were founded.

The present lot will be sold with a certificate of authenticity

See illustration