M0018730: Dutch pharmacy jar, flask shaped / M0018731: Pair of albarelli, possibly Portuguese of Dutch

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Drug jar - flask shaped, Dutch, Peacock and basket of flowers device.

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Drug jar, Albarello- ?Portuguese. Flowers and foliage in deep blue on a lightground

Photograph of three pharmacy jars. One is Dutch and is decorated with a peacock and basket of flowers device. Inscribed "A.CYANI". It was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum at an unknown point and accessioned in 1940 (accession number R891/1940). The other two are a pair decorated with flowers and foliage in deep blue on a lightground. They were purchased at auction by the Museum in 1925 and given accession number A34517. None of the jars are held by Wellcome Collection.

August 1961

1 photograph sheet film negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession registers which provide entries for the items: R891/1940 and A34517

Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

This item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.