AN ENGLISH DELFT ARMORIAL POLYCHROME APOTHECARY JAR

CIRCA 1695-1715, PROBABLY LONDON

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AN ENGLISH DELFT ARMORIAL POLYCHROME APOTHECARY JAR
CIRCA 1695-1715, PROBABLY LONDON
Of baluster form, painted in blue, pale-green, red and yellow with the arms of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries above the motto OPIFERQUE PER:ORBEM DICOR on a scrolling banner, among birds, insects and mythical beasts, the reverse with a two-handled vase issuing flowers between bands of scrolls and scattered sprigs
10½ in. (26.7 cm.) high

来源

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 28 June 1993, lot 185.

出版

Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Catalogue, Vol. II, D395.

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For a slightly smaller jar of similar baluster form, painted in the same palette with the arms of the Worshipful Company of Apothocaries, the reverse in blue and manganese with Chinoiserie figures, see Aileen Dawson, The British Museum - English & Irish Delftware 1570-1840, London, 2010, pp. 128-129, no. 50.