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DELFTWARE lBeverage Wares 
Bottles and a Cistern 
D220. WINE BOTTLE 
London, probably Southwark 
Dated 1640(?) 
H.: 6" (15.2 cm); 
Diam. (body): 4 1/2" (11.4 cm); 
Diam. (with handle): 4 1/2" (11.4 cm) 
BODY CLAY: Medium-grained buff. 
TIN GLAZE: White with open crazing. 
Overall, excluding bottom and edge 
of foot. 
SHAPE: Thrown. Pulled handle, flat on 
interior, rounded on exterior, with 
tapering lower terminal. Very slightly 
concave bottom. 
DECORATION: Painted. Dog(?) in 
laurel wreath topped by inscription 
"DDA/1640[?]" (running in glaze). Also 
inscribed "WHEN THIS YOV SE [wreath] 
REMEMBER ME." 
Published: Howard, Lambeth, app. p. 8, pl. 2: 
Howard, Drug Jars, pl. 21, no. 76. 
Exhibited: Loan Exhibition of Drinking Vessels, 
Vintners Hall, June 1933 (Catalog, pl 19C). 
Ex coils.: G. E. Howard. Taylor. T G. Burn, 
Rous Lench. 
N o other bottle with decoration of this type-an animal centered within a
wreath-has yet been found. The doglike creature presumably is symbolic of
the 
family referred to by the uppermost initial, D. (The lower initials probably
refer 
to the first names of a husband and wife.) The inscription "WHEN THIS
YOV SE 
REMEMBER ME" was very popular and reappears 150 years later as part
of a 
longer sentiment on a dated slipware puzzle jug in this collection (no. S89).'
See 
that entry fbr further discussion of the phrase. Biscuit delftware bottles
of this 
shape (see also nos. D221-D223) have been excavated at Platform Wharf, 
Rotherhithe, in Southwark.' The Rotherhithe factory was active from around
1636 to around 1663.' 
1. For a 1774 dated delft tea canister with a 
related rhyme, see Lipski and Archer, Dated 
Delftware, no. 1528. 
2. Stephenson comments (September 1998). 
3. Archer, V&A, p. 561.