Lot 153
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A LONDON DELFT BLUE AND WHITE DATED DRUG-JAR
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A LONDON DELFT BLUE AND WHITE DATED DRUG-JAR

1662, TRIAL BRUSHSTROKES IN BLUE TO THE UNDERSIDE

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A LONDON DELFT BLUE AND WHITE DATED DRUG-JAR
1662, TRIAL BRUSHSTROKES IN BLUE TO THE UNDERSIDE
Of conventional form, named for ·V:AREGON· within a scrolling banner label edged in black, above the initials and date ·H·H·/1662 (small section of base missing, cracks to rim)
7 5/8 in. (19.4 cm.) high
Provenance
Mrs Radford; Sotheby's, London, 3 November 1943, lot 5.
J.V. Vizcarra.
John Philip Kassebaum; Sotheby's, London, 7 October 1992, lot 74.
Literature
Louis L. Lipski and Michael Archer, Dated English Delftware, London, 1984, pp. 370-1, no. 1605D (cited).
Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Catalogue, Vol. II, D401.
Briony Hudson (ed.), English Delftware Drug Jars The Collection of the Museum of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, London, 2006, p. 95, no. 62 (cited).
Exhibited
With old exhibition lable 'Aregon - The Helpful Ointment'.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.

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Lot Essay

Unguentum aregon, described by William Salmon in his New London Dispensatory of 1678 as a 'helpful' ointment (derived from the Greek to help or to succor), was used as a nerve restorative. An earlier work by Nicholas Culpeper, Pharmacopoeia Londinensis describes further applications including "some purging quality", treatment for joint pain and convulsions but overall did not "much commend it".

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