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A large London delftware drug jar, circa 1700 image 1
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Lot 96

A large London delftware drug jar, circa 1700

5 June 2019, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £2,167.50 inc. premium

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A large London delftware drug jar, circa 1700

Of ovoid shape, painted in dark blue with a label inscribed, 'C,THER,AND' surmounted by a basket of flowers and flanked by two songbirds in foliage, a winged cherub's head below flanked by floral swags, 33.6cm high

Footnotes

The jar was made to contain 'Theriaca Andromachi', a theriac (or polypharmaceutical preparation) made according to the formula of Andromachus, a Roman physician of the first century AD.

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