Crate
Moet and Chandon
Category
Wooden objects
Date
1921
Materials
Wood
Measurements
550 mm (W)391 mm (D)195 mm (H)
Collection
Greenway, Devon
NT 122455
Summary
Wooden Moet and Chandon champagne crate from 1921. Stuart Blaylock 2008: Box 7, wooden champagne crate (no lid), unmarked [Catalist nos 122471–122476; 122551–122564] Containing a number of ancient medicine bottles (Optrex eye lotion; proprietory eye lotions; boracic acid, etc.: period pieces from a medicine chest: could well be an excavation ditto, in view of the number of eye lotions [dust]), but also 19 small pottery vessels, mostly complete; some of which are marked, some unmarked (below). These are a real mixture of classical/Hellenistic pots and earlier material. Something might be made of some of these, although their chaotic or absent provenance is problematic. The luggage labels, and numbering in the 150s, etc. is reminiscent of some of the numbering of the pots in the upstairs fax-room collection, but unless a list can be found that gives provenance, this cannot be taken much further. The multiple uses of the same number on labels strongly suggests lot numbers form a sale, and thus it is tempting to draw the conclusion that some of these, at least, have been brought together as a collection in western Europe rather then the Near East.
Makers and roles
Moet and Chandon