1666, PROBABLY SOUTHWARK

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A LONDON DELFT DATED BLUE AND WHITE WET-DRUG JAR
1666, PROBABLY SOUTHWARK
Of conventional form, named for ·S·DE:PRASSIO within a scrolling banner label surmounted by a winged mask above the date 1666 and a flourish (minor chipping around spout, minute flat chip to upper rim)
6 5/8 in. (16.8 cm.) high

Literature

Louis L. Lipski and Michael Archer, Dated English Delftware, London, 1984, p. 373, no. 1615B (not illustarted).
Deborah Scott, 'English Apothecary Jars', The Antique Collector, 56, no. 1, January 1985, p. 55, fig. 4.
Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Catalogue, Vol. II, D398.
Briony Hudson (ed.), English delftware Drug Jars The collection of the Museum of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, London, 2006, p. 103, no. 70 (cited).

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Lot Essay

Four other drug-jars from this set are recorded by Hudson et al. in museum and private collections and at auction: one formerly in the Hodgkin and then the Howard Collection, now in the Museum of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, another in the Jephcott Collection, New Zealand, one in the Gardiner Collection, Toronto and another formerly in the Price Glover Collection, sold Christie's, London, 14 June 1988, and one further example appeared at public auction from the collection of Dan Clare; Sotheby's, London, 18 January 1972, lot 234.

Syrupus de prassio, a syrup of white horehound (Marrubium Vulgare) was used in the treatment of chest and lung conditions and to treat wounds.

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