Witch's bottle
Category
Glass
Date
Unknown
Materials
Glass, Textile
Measurements
140 mm (H)38 mm (Diameter)
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1333092
Summary
Witch's bottle filled with bundles of thread. In notebook no.2, page 20 (1340945.2) Charles Wade refers to: 'Admiral 58. Three glass Bottles Filled with strands of coloured silk. ?purpose.'
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.
References
Wade, 1944: Charles Paget Wade, Contents of Snowshill Manor. Volume 2 The Admiral’s Room, 1944, page 20