pilgrim bottle

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Another notably English type is the conical flagon with a long, stretched neck, known as a 'pilgrim bottle' because of its resemblance to those flasks carried by travellers to the Holy Land; often created in pairs, these were particularly apt gifts.

Tsar attractions: the Kremlin Armoury Museum in Moscow holds one of the world's finest collections of Tudor and early Stuart silver. Its highlights have been loaned to London's Victoria and Albert Museum, as part of an exhibition charting early diplomatic relations between the English and Russian courts

Milton Keynes Council has received a police objection to the licence of the Pilgrim Bottle. The case will be heard shortly.

YE OLDE ASBO ARMS; AMID FEARS ON NEW BOOZE LAWS, WE EXPOSE TROUBLE-SPOT BOOZERS Britain's roughest bars

Some pilgrim bottles stood about, these had slightly longer necks which seemed to emphasise the triangle between the neck and the foot.

Jim Malone at Goldmark gallery: England, September 2011

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