£3,125
Five Centuries: Furniture, Paintings & Works of Art | 588
Auction: 5 February 2020 at 10:00 GMT
with a short cylindrical neck and spout with a moulded mask, united by a single twisted rope of clay, with a rounded handle consisting of two adjoined bands within bands of blue crosses and scrolls, above the ovoid body with an inscribed label SYo. DI. POMIS. S., and decorated with an unidentified shield of arms and the initials F and L, amongst grotesques, putti, beasts and fruit on a dark blue ground
Provenance: Property from Newbattle Abbey, Midlothian
Note: The label to this drug jar describes the previous contents of this piece: SYo. DI. POMIS.S., a purgative syrup. (See R.E. Drey, Apothecary Jars,1978, p224).
We are grateful to Celia Curnow for writing these entries and to Dr Elisa Sani for confirming her attributions.