Displaying objects from Buttery

Large wooden barrel - Alcohol container - 18th c

Large glass bottle - Bottle - 18th c
A Large glass bottle encrusted with shells and fossils. 18th Century

Lignum Wine Barrel - Alcohol container - 17th c
A 17th century turned Lignum wine barrel with unusual ribbed body.

Lignum Wassail wine barrel - Alcohol container - 17th c
A very large turned Lignum Wassil wine barrel with spice box finial to the lid. The metal cap with dolphin handle, some damage. Wassail Bowls and wine barrels of this type are very similar. The only difference being that a barrel has a tap where the bowl requires a ladle. ‘Wassail’ or Waes’hael’ is the Anglo-Saxon equivalent of “Good-Health” or ‘Cheers’ – the response is “Drinc Hael”. The word “Wassailsing” is associated primarily with festive community drinking, particularly at Christmas time.late 17th century.

Leather Costrel (Water Carrier) - Alcohol container - 17th c
A late 17th century Costrel, or water carrier. Black leather, slight damage.

Ginger bread mould - Kitchen accessory - 18th c
A carved wooden Ginger bread mold, depicting an over and a windmill. Late 18th Century. This is possible Dutch or Flemish.

Bombard - Alcohol container - 17th c
A Large black leather jug, or bombard. 17th century. Ex. Collection of Sir M. Boileau, Bart. (Bearing his label on the base).

Picard - Alcohol container - 17th c
A large 17th century Black leather jug, pitch lined and used in alehouses and hospitals in Elizabethan times.

Picard - Alcohol container - 17th c
A large 17th century Black leather jug, pitch lined and used in alehouses and hospitals in Elizabethan times.

Picard - Alcohol container - 17th c
A large 17th century Black leather jug, pitch lined and used in alehouses and hospitals in Elizabethan times.

Brown glass Kentraugh bottles - Bottle - 19th c
Brown bottles with the relief moulded lettering of Kentraugh. More efficient moulding processes on bottles facilitated this advertising and ownership mark. In this case Kentraugh represents an old Manx family of high renown who augmented their fortune by brewing. It was located on the Isle of Man.

Bellamine Jug - Alcohol container - 18th c
An 18th century stoneware Bellamine jug with strap handle. These early slope shoulder cylindrical utensils denote the period 1750-1775. Pots like these were made in Germany from the mid 16th century onwards. They were used as jugs for ale.They are called Bellamine's as the face is of Cardinal Bellarmine (1542-1621), who was famous for putting Galileo in prison.The 'Salt Glaze' finish is sometimes called 'Orange Peel' glaze because of the pitted surface, and orange - brown colour, it gives to the pot.

Leather Costrel (Water Carrier) - Alcohol container - 17th c
A late 17th century Costrel, or water carrier, leather. Initials B.H. cut into one end

Shaft & Globe bottle - Bottle - 17th c
Shaft & Globe bottle, 17th century lying within the period 1650-1690. These bottles with large necks and small bodies were most in demand after the mid seventeenth century. This represents one of the first distinctive shapes during the periods of bottle making.It also shows an era when the main function of a bottle was to take the wine from the cask to the table and this meant it would have had a light stopper, been stored flat thus ensuring the need for a cyclindrical shape.

Slope & Shoulder bottle - Bottle - 18th c
Slope & Shoulder bottle. These 18th century bottles lie in the third phase of bottle manufacture between 1650 and 1775. These bottles produced a greater capacity in relation to the amount of glass used in their construction.

Early cylinder bottle - Bottle - 18th c
Early cylinder bottle. This represents one of the final phases of bottle manufacture and is more like the bottle shape we know today.

Wassail bowl - Alcohol container - 19th c
A Wassail Bowl with Silver Inscription

Kentraugh brown glass bottles - Bottle - 19th c
brown glass bottle, stamped Kentraugh. More efficient moulding processes on bottles facilitated this advertising and ownership mark. In this case Kentraugh represents an old Manx family of high renown who augmented their fortune by brewing. It was located on the Isle of Man.

Glass bottle - Bottle - 18th c

Leather middle eastern container - Alcohol container - 18th c
A Leather bottle of Middle Eastern shape, possibly 18th century.

Onion shaped green wine bottle - Bottle - 18th c
An 18th century Green Glass Wine Bottle of typical squat circular form. It is an onion shaped bottle indicating the second phase of bottle making production. It has a short neck and relatively large bottle and indicates an era when the main function of bottles was to take the wine from the cask to the table.

Leather picard - Alcohol container - 17th c
A 17th century Black Leather Jug painted with a ducal coronet and two confronting letters. L. Worn.

Door panel - Furniture - 17th c
A 17th century Carved Oak Panel, leaves and berries design.

Octagonal wine bottle - Bottle - 18th c
Green Octagonal Wine Bottle. This armorials and dated bottle has a ringeded rim and wide kick in base. These seals, initials and dates identified the owner of the bottle. Molten glass was place on the side of the bottle, and the owner's mark was impressed into this by using a brass seal.18th Century

Dome foot glass bottle - Bottle - 18th c
A Glass Bottle. Bottle with squat body and very high kick in base with a a short neck flanged at the rim. Rare 18th century glass wine bottle with dome foot

James I Oak refectory table - Furniture - 17th c
A James I Oak Centre Table of exceptional colour and patina, cleated top on base with four bold columnar turned legs and heavy stretchers. Top measures 3’11" x 2’ 1½". Circa 1620

One of five green bottles. 18th century - Bottle - 18th c
One of five glass bottles

One of five green bottles. 18th century - Bottle - 18th c
One of five green bottles. 18th century

One of five glass bottles - Bottle - 18th c
One of five glass bottles

Reproduction leather picards - Alcohol container - 20th c
Leather blackjacks