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This bottle has an extremely rare crest lightly incised into the gold vase from which flowers extend across the body that allows it to be dated to the early 18th century. The crest, a horse's head and crown, have been identified as those of John Deane, an English colonial administrator who went on to hold the post of the English East India Company's President of Bengal from 1723 to 1726, and again from 1728 to 1732. He indulged in private trading which gave him a considerable income. Contemporary records record that he requested extra dinner and table allowances to meet his obligations to host members of the Company's Council, and it is probable that this bottle and its related cups and salver (C.140, 141 and 142-1936) were made during this period. Scientific analysis shows that the glass material is English; at this time, imported lump glass and ingots were being exported from England to India and refashioned for the local market. The precise place of manufacture cannot be given with certainty, but it was likely to have been made in Lucknow or Patna, both known glass-making centres.","physicalDescription":"BOTTLE: Cobalt blue glass, mould-blown with gilt decoration. A crest (a horse's head and crown) is incised into the vase painted in gold). Probably Lucknow or Patna, c. 1700-1730.","artistMakerPerson":[],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"glass","id":"AAT10797"}],"techniques":[],"materialsAndTechniques":"Glass,  mould blown, with gilt decoration","categories":[{"text":"Glass","id":"THES48946"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"SSEA","id":"THES48598"},"images":["2017KB6287","2017KB6288","2017KB6293","2017KB6294","2017KB6286","2017JW4754"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"CB009","id":"THES394866"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Bottle","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Lucknow","id":"x32012"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":"Patna is also possible."}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1700-1730","earliest":"1700-01-01","latest":"1730-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[{"object":{"text":"C.140-1936","id":"O155877"},"association":""},{"object":{"text":"C.141-1936","id":"O155880"},"association":""},{"object":{"text":"C.142-1936","id":"O155887"},"association":""}],"creditLine":"Wilfred Buckley Collection","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"18","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"From the Wilfred Buckley collection, given by Mrs Buckley in memory of her husband. The crest of John Deane, President of Bengal from 1727-1732, was first identified on the bottle by Tara Desjardins (PhD thesis: Mughal Glass: Indian Glass from the Late Modern and Early Colonial Period, SOAS January, 2018, 290-294. The crest had formerly been identified on a ewer in the Los Angeles County Museum by the UK College of Arms, to whom the LACMA senior curator of South Asian Art, Stephen Markel, sent it. ","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"BOTTLE: Cobalt blue glass, mould-blown with gilt decoration. Probably Lucknow or Patna, c. 1700-1730.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"\r\nReino Liefkes, ed., Glass, p. 105\r\nTara Desjardin, Mughal Glass: Indian Glass from the Late Modern and Early Colonial Period, PhD thesis, SOAS January, 2018, 290-294.\r\nTara Desjardins, 'Patna, Lucknow, and the Curious Crest of John Deane: an Investigation of Two Indian Glass Centers and a Colonial Drinking Set' in The Journal of Glass Studies, Volume 63, 2021, 247-267. Illustrated Fig. 9; detail of side of the bottle in Fig. 14 and detail of the crest in Fig.11."},{"reference":{"text":"Skelton, Robert, et al, <i>The Indian Heritage. 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This is the crest of John Deane, who served as the English East India Company’s President of Bengal in the early 18th century. His two periods of office were from 1723 to 1726, and 1728 to 1732. The set was probably made in Bengal, though little is known of the history and main centres of glass-production in India.\r\n","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null}},{"text":"BOTTLE: Cobalt blue glass, mould-blown with gilt decoration.","date":{"text":"Nehru Gallery 2001","earliest":"2001-01-01","latest":"2001-12-31"}}],"partNumbers":["C.143-1936"],"accessionNumberNum":"143","accessionNumberPrefix":"C","accessionYear":1936,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2026-06-05","recordCreationDate":"2008-06-12","availableToBook":false}}