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Jar, drug
Drug jar, pale buff coloured earthenware, standing on a waisted spreading foot, globular body sloping inwards at the shoulder, short cylindrical neck with everted lip-rim; covered all over with a slightly bluish tinged white tin-glaze with a slightly pinkish tinge to it in places, this then painted in blue with to the one side of the body the inscription "C: CORT: AUR" enclosed within an elaborate scrolling cartouche surmounted by a shell and the figures of two winged cherubs bearing sprigs of flowers, and with below the head of a winged cherub and two stylized flower heads, the glaze chipped around the foot-rim and lip-rim.
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Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 34717
Creation/Production
Unknown
Date: 18th century (early)
Acquisition
Gift, 2/5/1955
Given by Miss Margaret Florence Johnson
Measurements
Height
(cm): 18.8
diam
(cm): 16.5
Height
(in): 7
diam
(in): 6
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
in-glaze colours
decoration
Applied Art
tin-glazed
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
tin-glazed earthenware
Location
In store
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