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On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 138, The Harry and Carol Djanogly Gallery

Drug Jar

1763 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

One side is painted in blue with a strapwork cartouche inscribed O:AMYGD:D: surmounted by a basket of fruit, flanked by birds and branches with a winged cupid's head below with tassels and two swags of fruit and flowers. The back is inscribed W N 1763 beneath the spout.
Body colour: Buff
Glaze: Bluish white. Foot-rim wiped entirely clean of glaze.
Shape: The trumpet-shaped foot is hollow, luted separately onto the body. (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. Delftware. 1997)


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware, painted in blue
Brief description
Drug jar with depictions of a basket of fruit, birds and inscriptions, tin-glazed earthenware, painted in blue, probably London, England, 1763
Physical description
One side is painted in blue with a strapwork cartouche inscribed O:AMYGD:D: surmounted by a basket of fruit, flanked by birds and branches with a winged cupid's head below with tassels and two swags of fruit and flowers. The back is inscribed W N 1763 beneath the spout.
Body colour: Buff
Glaze: Bluish white. Foot-rim wiped entirely clean of glaze.
Shape: The trumpet-shaped foot is hollow, luted separately onto the body. (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. Delftware. 1997)
Dimensions
  • Height: 17cm
  • Diameter: 15.1cm
Height: Ht. 17 cms (6 11/12 ins).() Diameter: D. 15.1 cms (5 5/16 ins)
Marks and inscriptions
  • O:AMY GD:D:. (Back)
  • W N 1763
Credit line
Given by Mrs Liselotte Caraco, in memory of her husband, Dr Max Caraco
Object history
Given by Mrs Liselotte Caraco in memory of her husband Dr. Max Caraco, London, 1991.
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic references
  • Archer, Michael. Delftware: the tin-glazed earthenware of the British Isles. A catalogue of the collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum. London: HMSO, in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1997. ISBN 0 11 290499 8
  • Lipski and Archer, No: 1672.
Other number
K10. - <u>Delftware</u> (1997) cat. no.
Collection
Accession number
C.190-1991

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Record createdJanuary 29, 2000
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