AN ENGLISH DELFT DATED ROYAL ARMORIAL POLYCHROME HEART-SHAPED APOTHECARY'S TILE
AN ENGLISH DELFT DATED ROYAL ARMORIAL POLYCHROME HEART-SHAPED APOTHECARY'S TILE

DATED 1664

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AN ENGLISH DELFT DATED ROYAL ARMORIAL POLYCHROME HEART-SHAPED APOTHECARY'S TILE
DATED 1664
Painted in ochre and blue with the royal arms below the initials CR for Charles Rex and 1664 and above the motto BEATI PASSIFISI in a cartouche, at the bottom the initials NB joined by a strapwork flourish, pierced twice at the top for hanging
9 ¼ in. (23.5 cm.) high
来源
D. Clare Collection; Sotheby's, London, 18 January 1972, lot 242.
Thomas George Burn, The Rous Lench Court Collection; Sotheby's, London, 1 July 1986, lot 14.
出版
A. Lothian, 'The Armorial London Delft of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries,' Connoisseur 127, March 1951, pp. 21-26.
L. B. Grigsby, 'Dated English Delftware and Slipware in the Longridge Collection,' The Magazine Antiques 155, June 1999, p. 881, pl. 8.
L. B. Grigsby, The Longridge Collection of English Slipware and Delftware, vol. 2, London, 2000, pp. 458-459, no. D410.
L.G. Matthews, 'Apothecaries' Pill Tiles,' Transactions of the English Ceramic Circle 7, no. 3, 1970, pp. 200-209.
L. L. Lipski, Dated English Delftware: Tin-Glazed Earthenware 1600-1800, ed. Michael Archer, London, 1984, p. 391, no. 1677.
T.D. Whittet, 'A Survay of Apothecaries’ tokens,' Pharmaceutical Journal 228, 1982, pp. 719-724.

拍品专文


Matthews op.cit. suggests the initials may be those of Nathaniel Bateman, admited to the Society of Apothecaries in 1653. Whittet op.cit. suggests Nicholas Bannister admitted in April 1657.

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