Lot Essay
The DELESCOT ointment-pot contains a label on the inside base maintaining that Delescot lived at 19 Duke Street Pall Mall and patented his conserve of Myrtle Opiate in 1749.
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Five 18th-Century English Delft ointment/perfume-pots,
four of cup-shape form and inscribed Usherwood, WARREN PERFUMER, D. Laudumiey. and DELESCOT and a pot of cylindrical form inscribed for VALLE 21 Haymarket - largest 5.5cm. (2¼in.) high and smallest 3.1cm. (1¼in.) high (5)
four of cup-shape form and inscribed Usherwood, WARREN PERFUMER, D. Laudumiey. and DELESCOT and a pot of cylindrical form inscribed for VALLE 21 Haymarket - largest 5.5cm. (2¼in.) high and smallest 3.1cm. (1¼in.) high (5)
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