drug-pot; jar

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Object Type: drug-pot; jar
Museum number: 1887,0307,E.72
Description: Drug-pot or jar, tin-glazed earthenware, globular; hollow, with conical spreading foot; spout and handle (missing), painted in blue with an angel's head with outspread wings supporting inscribed ribbon; initials and date.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 1660
Production place: Made in: London (England)
Materials
Ware
Technique: tin-glazed; painted
Dimensions: Diameter: 17.10 centimetres (max.); Diameter: 7.70 inches; Height: 21.10 centimetres; Height: 8.10 inches
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: Hodgkin & Hodgkin 1891 / Examples of Early English Pottery Named, Dated and Inscribed (no.305); Hobson 1903 / Catalogue of the collection of English Pottery in the Department of British and Medieval Antiquites and Ethnography of the British Museum (E72); Lothian 1955a / Angels in the design of seventeenth century English drug jars (p. 732, fig. 2); Lipski & Archer 1984 / Dated English Delftware (p.369, no.1600); Dawson 2010 / English and Irish Delftware 1570-1840 (pp. 152-3, no. 61.2)
Location: On display (G68/dc12/p4/no2)
Exhibition history: Exhibited: 2012 - Present, London, BM, G68 Money Gallery
Condition: Handle missing and chip out of foot - July 2006
Subjects
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1887
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 1887,0307,E.72
Conservation: Treatment: 28 Nov 1997; Treatment: 03 Sep 2008

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