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Dry drug jar
Title
Dry drug jar.
Production
Liverpool, England, circa 1750.
Physical Description
1 jar : white delftware ; 19 cm high x 15 cm in diameter
Medium
ceramic (material)
throwing (pottery technique)
Notes
The inscription means "balsam lucatelli."
“Take of fine oyl of olives and Venice turpentine each 4 pound, yellow wax cut thin 2 pound and half; melt them together, and add dragons-blood in fine powder 2 ounces, and mix it into a red balsam. ... The dragons-blood gives a much better colour than the saunders, which is in the other; and if either have any virtues suitable to the whole, this bids the fairest; and will also much better mix therewith, because it in a manner dissolves in the oyl. It is used both inwardly, in all suspicions of internal ulcerations, and externally as a digestive." See Pharmacopoeia pauperum.
Summary
The apothecary jar is ovoid and tapers slightly towards a splayed base. The jar has an everted neck that has been glazed. The body of the jar curves down to a wide short stem and a flared foot with an unglazed edge. The jar features decoration B, which has dark shading below the top leaf ornaments and is generally more darkly shaded, and a stylized acanthus leaf design. The cartouche is a straight rectangle, with the ends tilted slightly inwards. There is a stylized leaf ornament across the top of this, with more falling downwards and inwards from the bottom outer corners of the cartouche. In the center below is a four-armed ornament of stylized leaves. See Humphries, et. al, 2017, Cat. 184, p. 28 and p. 131.
Variant and related titles
Bals. locat.
Format
Other
Language
Latin
Added to Catalog
April 01, 2021
References
Spencer, K. M. James N. Spencer Collection of English Delftware Apothecary Jars, 10
Genre/Form
Delftware
Drug jars
Ceramic (material)
Tin glaze
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