PROBABLY BRITISH, EARLY 19TH CENTURY | Large Water Flask

Inventory, 1949, 'An old Swiss [sic] pilgrim shaped bottle' in the Inner Hall

A similar but smaller flask is illustrated in E. H. Pinto, Treen and other wooden Bygones, London, 1969, pl. 53E, there called 'probably Scottish'. There is another in the Pitt Rivers Collection, Oxford, also catalogued as Scottish, see J. Levi, Treen for the Table, Woodbridge, 1998, p. 182.