A mid 18th Century Delft wet drug jar, inscribed S:DE:SPIN:CERV on a bold cartouche hung with swags and tassels, height 19cm The contents of this jar were syrup of spina cervina (buckthorn). Culpeper differentiates between Buck's-horn Plantain and Buck's Horn, the one a small plant, the other 'not much unlike to those of Buck's-horn Plantain, but much smaller, and not so hairy.' When boiled in wine and drank it 'stays the distillation of hot and sharp rheums falling into the eyes from the head

A late 17th Century dry drug jar, probably Lambeth, painted with a cherubim, its wings outstretched above a c

Lot 37
Sold for £1,450 hammer

Estimate £800-£1,200

A pair of late 18th Century Chelsea (Aesop's) Fable candlesticks based upon the engravings by Francis Barlow,

Lot 70
Sold for £1,450 hammer

Estimate £800-£1,200

A 19th Century Meissen figural group 'Broken Eggs', after the 1777 original by M. V Acier modelled as a two di

Lot 76
Sold for £850 hammer

Estimate £800-£1,200