Objects
Measure
Alcohol
Measure
Quality control
Quart- ale (measures 1120ml)
[Taken from object catalagoue]
A nest of four mid-eighteenth century brass liquid measures. Each is a cylindrical tankard with molded rim, the largest with a loop handle, engraved ‘Nichs. Corsellis Esqr./ WIVEN HOE HALL./ 1766/ Quart Winchester’. The inner measures include a pint Winchester, a half-pint Winchester and a gill wine Winchester measures.
Wivenhoe is a town sited on the east bank of the River Colne in north-east Essex. One of the major landholders of the eighteenth century, the Corsellis family, was descended from families in the Low Countries, and purchased the manorial estate. The Corsellis of 1766 was Nicholas Corsellis V (1745-1826).
[The capacity of 1120ml is closest to a winchester quart of 1114ml. Whilst these were intended as dry measures, they were used indiscriminately for wet measures as well, which led to some confusion]
Production
Dates of Production: circa
exact
England
Consumer
Nicholas Corsellis
male
Owner
Gentleman
Consumption
1766
Wivenhoe Hall, Wivenhoe, Essex, England
Materials
Metal- brass
Museological Details
Liquid measures
Crab Tree Farm
D.O.M/67
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