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Pottery: unidentified London pottery
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed on the front and painted in blue and manganese-purple. Octagonal with two suspension holes at the top. Painted on the front with a simplified version of the arms of the Worshipfull Company of Apothecaries with the motto 'OPIFERQUE PER ORBEM DICOR' in manganese on a curved ribbon below
History note: Said to have come from Burnham Hall, near Wells, Norfolk; Mr Elliott, an antique dealer at Heacham, near Hunstanton, Norfolk, from whom bought on 17 April, 1900 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge.
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Depth: 1.7 cm
Height: 29.7 cm
Width: 23.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter#
Circa
1750
CE
-
1775
CE
The latin motto of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries was taken from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Book I:521-2 where Apollo says, ‘inventum medicina meum est, opiferque per orbem dicor, et herbarum subiecta potentia nobis ei mihi’ (I am called Help-Bringer throughout the world and all the potency of herbs is given unto me).
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colour
( blue from cobalt)
Front
composed of
tin-glaze
buff Earthenware
Accession number: C.1378-1928
Primary reference Number: 71891
Old object number: 1082
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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