18TH / 19TH CENTURY WINE OR SPIRITS BOTTLES FROM THE CELLAR OF HEZEKIAH BEERS PIERREPONT (AMERICAN, 1763-1838), LOT OF TWO

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Jun 19, 2024

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  18TH / 19TH CENTURY WINE OR SPIRITS BOTTLES FROM THE CELLAR OF HEZEKIAH BEERS PIERREPONT (AMERICAN, 1763-1838), LOT OF TWO, olive-green or black glass, cylindrical forms, blown in a three-piece mold with medium length necks, applied double-collar mouths, disk pontil marked bases. One empty, the other filled at high- to mid-shoulder level with reddish-brown liquid, seemingly well-sealed with cork and red wax. The empty bottle is embossed "PATENT" at shoulder and "RICKETTS & Co. GLASSWORKS BRISTOL" to underside of base. Two pieces total. First or second quarter 19th century. 10 3/4" H.
  Literature: Abbot Low Moffat - The Pierreponts, 1802-1962; the American forebears and the descendants of Hezekiah Beers Pierpont and Anna Maria Constable.
  Catalogue Note: This full bottle (and the accompanying empty bottle) are part of a small assemblage which descended through the Pierrepont family, originally of Brooklyn, NY. Monticello acquired this group from Anne Pierrepont Luquer, great-great-great granddaughter of Hezekiah B. Pierrepont, each bottle said to have come from the famed Pierrepont family wine cellars in Brooklyn Heights, with many having related paper labels. The Pierreponts were an 18th and 19th century New York mercantile dynasty whose patriarch, Hezekiah Beers Pierrepont, is most famous for his 1790s seafaring adventures and unlucky involvement in the complicated geopolitical issue of "French spoliation". Hezekiah chartered a ship named the Confederacy, partaking in lucrative international trade without incident until 1797 when his ship and all its cargo were stolen/seized by French privateers (pirates). The Confederacy and its cargo were soon sold at public auction in Nantes. Aboard the ship was a large quantity of Madeira, at least some of which was re-purchased by Pierrepont at that auction, and re-imported to New York City.
  
  The empty bottle in this lot has a typewritten label - still present but having fallen off - indicating its contents had been H.B.P.'s "French Spoliation Madeira" or "Black Seal Madeira", as it has come to be known. The full bottle has a very old label reading "CONSTITUTION" in script, the meaning of which is unknown. The contents are unknown as well. A possible connection is that in 1797 the ship U.S.S. Constitution was launched. Its entry into the harbor was widely celebrated in the press. Numerous accounts indicate it was christened by having a "choice bottle of old Madeira" broken across its bow. One might speculate that the sealed bottle could contain a Madeira named to celebrate the launch of this famous ship, which is now a museum. However, until the bottle is opened, no one can say for certain.

  Condition

  Both bottles appear to be in excellent condition with nothing more than minor exterior wear, including perhaps a small cosmetic bruise or two mostly at heels; both additionally have some dirt and grime all over.
  
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• Provenance

  Property deaccessioned by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Inc. to benefit the conservation and acquisitions fund. These objects are not directly related to Thomas Jefferson or Monticello itself, and, therefore falls outside the Foundation's collections scope.
  Gift of Anne Pierrepont Boswell (nee Luquer) and John Boswell of Hanover, NH. The bottles are said to have descended through the family in a direct line before being donated to Monticello in 1993.

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