drug-pot; jar

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Object Type: drug-pot; jar
Museum number: 1887,0307,E.74
Description: Drug-pot or jar, tin-glazed earthenware, oviform with two horizontal bands on a flared foot, painted in blue with an ornamental label surmounted by an angel with outspread wings; inscription and date.
Cultures/periods: Post-Medieval
Production date: 1683
Production place: Made in: England
Materials: earthenware
Ware: delftware
Technique: tin-glazed; painted
Dimensions: Diameter: 14.10 centimetres (max.); Diameter: 5.40 inches; Height: 17.70 centimetres; Height: 7 inches
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: Hobson 1903 / Catalogue of the collection of English Pottery in the Department of British and Medieval Antiquites and Ethnography of the British Museum (E74); Lothian 1955a / Angels in the design of seventeenth century English drug jars (p. 753, fig. 10); Lipski & Archer 1984 / Dated English Delftware (p. 381, no. 1651); Dawson 2010 / English and Irish Delftware 1570-1840 (pp. 152-3, no. 61.1)
Location: Not on display
Condition: Good condition with firing hole in foot - August 2006.
Subjects: angel
Acquisition name: Donated by: Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks
Acquisition date: 1887
Acquisition notes: Label boldly printed in black 'Lot 14'.
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 1887,0307,E.74
Conservation: Treatment: 28 Nov 1997; Treatment: 03 Sep 2008

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