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Retailer:
Kreuzberg, Georg
Production:
Unknown
Brown salt-glazed stoneware. Cylindrical with short narrow neck and single loop handle springing from the shoulder. On the front, about half-way down, is a circular stamp inscribed 'APOLLINARIS-BRUN[NEN]' with an anchor in the middle. Below is stamped 'GEORG.KREUZ[BERG] /AHRWEILER/RHEIN-PREUSSEN'. Incised below the handle 'No 1/0' (o raised)
History note: Found by the donor at Swaffham Prior, Cambridgeshire about 1960
Given by Mrs Zoë Ellison
Diameter: 8.4 cm
Height: 29.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1981-04-08) by Ellison, Zoë, Mrs
19th Century, Late#
Production date:
circa
AD 1870
This is a bottle for Apollinaris mineral water. Georg Kreuzberg who was born in Ahrweiler in 1795 and died there in 1873, discovered the spring in 1852 and from 1853 began to sell the water in stoneware bottles.
Surface composed of salt-glaze
Inscription present: name of proprietor and name of place of his business
Inscription present: the o of No is raised
Accession number: C.24-1981
Primary reference Number: 73486
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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