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An English delftware apothecary syrup jar, circa 1740 image 1
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The Hutton Collection
Lot 155

An English delftware apothecary syrup jar, circa 1740

23 September – 7 October 2025, 12:00 BST
Online, London, Knightsbridge

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An English delftware apothecary syrup jar, circa 1740

The globular body raised on a spreading foot and the reverse applied with a simple trumpet spout, painted in blue with a cherub, shell and angel head label inscribed 'O:AMYGD.DUL.', 18.5cm high, marked with an X to the underside of the foot

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Hutton Collection

Oleum amygdalarum dulcium or oil of sweet almonds or was a treatment for coughs and to ease 'the cholick [sic] and gripes of children', The London Dispensatory, 1694. A dry drug jar which held powdered sweet almonds, pulvis amygdala dulcium is in the Collection of the Museum of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain illustrated by Briony Hudson, English Delftware Drug Jars (2006), p.202, cat.169.

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