A Lambeth delftware drug jar 1st half 18th century

A Lambeth delftware drug jar 1st half 18th century, painted in blue with two birds either side of a basket of fruit above a cartouche bearing the legend 'MITHRIDAT', the base marked with 'WO', 18cm. Paper label for Jonathan Horne Antiques. Mithridatium was a complex preparation containing as many as 65 ingredients, which was devised by and named after Mithridates, the King of Pontus from 131BC, as an antidote against poisons. It was replaced in general usage by Theriacum Andromachi.