AN ENGLISH DELFT DATED BLUE AND WHITE DRUG-JAR
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AN ENGLISH DELFT DATED BLUE AND WHITE DRUG-JAR

1717, PROBABLY LONDON, VAUXHALL

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AN ENGLISH DELFT DATED BLUE AND WHITE DRUG-JAR
1717, PROBABLY LONDON, VAUXHALL
The oviform body on a circular spreading foot, with waisted cylindrical short spout, named for S.HEDER.T within a foliate dragon's head oval cartouche with Apollo above the date 1717 beneath the spout,
7½ in. (19 cm.) high
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 28 June 1993, lot 186.
Literature
Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Catalogue, Vol. II, D407.
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

For two examples of similar type but not from the same pharmacy, see Louis L. Lipski and Michael Archer, Dated English Delftware,
London, 1984, pp. 386-387, nos. 1666 & 1666A. For a fragment of a jar with a similar label excavated at Vauxhall see Dennis Cockell, 'Some Finds of Pottery at Vauxhall Cross, London', English Ceramic Circle Transactions, 1974, Vol. 9, pt. 2. pp. 221-249, pl. 131.

Hedera terrestris is derived from Glechoma hederacea, which is Ground-ivy.

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