Pair Antique 17th Century Spanish Blue & White Pottery Albarelli Apothecary Jars 1680 Sculpture The dial with twin winding

The dial with twin winding arbors one for time & the other for the strike

Each urn having a cobalt blue ground with a domed top lid mounted with an ormolu 'pineapple' finial

the bowl decorated in under-glazed blue with a pagoda and water scene

which led to imitators passing off their work as the Poveys'

Pair Antique 17th Century Spanish Blue & White Pottery Albarelli Apothecary Jars 1680 Sculpture The dial with twin windingA very good pair of antique 17th century Spanish blue & white pottery albarelli or apothecary jars, circa 1680. From the 15th century onward cylindrical drug jars like this were used throughout Europe & Islamic countries in North Africa & the Near East, they were used for medicines and herbal remedies. This late 1600s pair of Spanish albarelli are of cylindrical waisted form and having a wide slightly flared mouth, each jar with a raised circular