Property of the Shelter Island Historical Society, sold to benefit the Museum Collections Program
A London Delftware Blue and White Pill Slab, Second Half 18th Century
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January 24, 08:54 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property of the Shelter Island Historical Society, sold to benefit the Museum Collections Program
A London Delftware Blue and White Pill Slab
Second Half 18th Century
of octagonal shape, painted with the arms of the Society of Apothecaries, with unicorn supporters, over a ribbon banner inscribed with the Society's motto "OPIFER/OVE: PER: ORBEM:/ DICOR.", pierced twice ifor hanging
Length 10 1/2 in.
David B. Newbon, London
Janet Roach (ed.), Delftware from the Gill Patterson Collection at the Shelter Island Historical Society, Shelter Island Historical Society, 2012, p. 10
A close example is in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, obj. no. 1950-41.
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