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Probably Mortlake, of octagonal shape, painted in blue with the full arms of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries, flanked by unicorn supporters, the motto 'OPIFERQUE PER ORBEM DICOR' in manganese on a scroll below, pierced for suspension, 30cm x 25cm
Footnotes
Provenance
With Jonathan Horne Antiques
Literature
White, Mary, Living at the Whites' House, Vol.4, 2023, p.4
Exhibited
Morley College Ceramic Circle Exhibition, October 2012
Fragments similar to the present lot were found in the Museum of London's excavations at Mortlake within a context datable to 1775-1800, see Sloane, Hoad, Cloake, Pearce and Stephenson, Early Modern Industry and Settlement, 2003. A very similar example from the S J McManus Collection that was inscribed 'J Butler 1785' in diamond point on the reverse supports this date range. This is illustrated by Lipski and Archer, , 1984, p.392, fig.1682 and was sold by Bonhams on 12 November 2014, lot 16.