Figure 1 Apothecary jar, Aldgate or Low Countries, 16071610. Delftware. H. 7 1/4". (Courtesy, Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities; photo, Gavin Ashworth.) Decorated with a stylized peacock feather motif. The jar was excavated by Jamestown Rediscovery, a project of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (APVA) at the site of James Fort (1607), the earliest permanent English settlement in the New World.