1656, SOUTHWARK, PICKLEHERRING QUAY

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A LONDON DELFT DATED POLYCHROME ARMORIAL APOTHECARY-JAR
1656, SOUTHWARK, PICKLEHERRING QUAY
Painted with the arms of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries in blue, ochre and manganese with the motto OPI FER QVE PER ORBEM DICOR 1656 below, within a ribbon cartouche above a winged and tasselled cherub's head between bands of radiating lappets, the reverse with flowers, fruit and pomegranates between blue-line, ovolo and dot-ornament bands
14 1/8 in. (35.8 cm.) high

Provenance

Mrs. Radford.
J.V. Vizcarra.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 3 June 1985, lot 204.
John Philip Kassebaum; Sotheby's, London, 7 October 1992, lot 77.

Literature

Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Catalogue, Vol. II, D394.
Bryony Hudson (Ed.), English Delftware Drug Jars, The Collection of the Museum of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, London, 2006, p. 83 (unillustrated).
Louis L. Lipski and Michael Archer, Dated English Delftware, London, 1984, p. 366, no. 1593.

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Lot Essay

See Louis L. Lipski and Michael Archer, op.cit., pp. 366 & 367, nos. 1592-1594 for the only other dated examples of 1647 and 1658. See also Jonathan Horne, English Pottery and Works of Art, London, 2003, no. 03/3 for a large blue and white jar with similar foliage decoration and borders. See also the example dated 1647 in the collection of the Museum of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, illustrated by Bryony Hudson (Ed.), English Delftware Drug Jars, London, 2006, pp. 82-83.

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