Objects
Bottle
Alcohol
Consumption
pint
A pint bottle made for Anne Morrell and Will Turton at the Crown tavern in Oxford. Blown transparent dark green non-lead glass; applied and impressed seal, ‘ox/on’ on either side of a royal crown, above a cipher of the name ‘MORRELL”, above the date 1684.
This onion wine bottle was made for the Crown tavern in Oxford. Anne Turton (widow of Thomas Turton) sold wine illicitly in a tenement building in Oxford under the name of the The Crown from 1653 to about 1660, she received a license in 1659. William Morrell married Anne in 1659 or 1660; her license was transferred to William in 1660, until William’s death in 1679. Anne then managed the tavern, perhaps with a son from her first marriage, William Turton, until her death in 1696.
There are several surviving sealed bottles from The Crown tavern, with the ciphers of several different licensees following the Morrells’ tenancy. The earliest dated seal, from 1674, with the Morrell cipher appearing as late as 1701, when the tavern was licensed to Anne’s granddaughter Joan Morrell. Between 1683 and 88, there are examples known for each year, illustrating the need to replace broken bottles regularly.
[420ml represents a very small wine pint (473ml)]
Production
Dates of Production: 1684
Consumer
Anne Morrell
female
Taverner
Consumption
Crown Tavern, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
Materials
Glass
Glass- green
Museological Details
D.O.G/2
This image is subject to copyright. The holding collection has given permission to reproduce this image on this website.