drug-pot

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Object Type
Museum number: 1899,0508.49
Description: Drug-pot, earthenware, tin-glazed, painted in blue with flowers and birds between plain bands; glaze blackened in parts from decomposition probably due to burial.
Producer name
Cultures/periods
Production date: 1630 (circa)
Production place: Made in: Southwark
Findspot: Found/Acquired: London (England)
Materials
Ware
Technique: tin-glazed; painted
Dimensions: Diameter: 7.90 centimetres; Height: 10.80 centimetres
Curator's comments: For another piece with similar 'bird on a rock' painted decoration, see the wine-bottle or jug dated 1628, AF 3204 (Dawson 2010, no. 66) and the posset pot and cover dated 1632, 1887,0307.E101 (Dawson 2010, no. 68)
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 (E106); Tait 1961 / Southwark (alias Lambeth) delftware and the potter, Christian Wilhelm, part II (pp.26-7, fig.30); Dawson 2010 / English and Irish Delftware 1570-1840 (pp. 150-1, no. 60); Archer 2013 / Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum (J. 4) (compare)
Location: Not on display
Condition: Hole in base, two chips on rim and glaze flake, chip on foot (May 2006).
Subjects: bird; flower
Acquisition name: Purchased through: Sotheby's; Purchased through: Rollin & Feuardent
Previous owner
Acquisition date: 1899
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 1899,0508.49
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