English Delftware Drug Jars: The Collection of the Museum of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain

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Briony Hudson
Pharmaceutical Press, 2006 - Art - 271 pages
This beautiful book contains the first ever comprehensive survey and catalog of the collection of English Delftware drug jars held in the Museum of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. The book also includes details of tin-glazed barbers' bowls, pill tiles and posset pots in the collections. Delftware drug jars were originally manufactured in London around 1570. They were expensive highly prized objects, used by successful apothecaries for storage of pills, ointments, syrups, oils and confections. They were often highly decorated or labeled to indicate their contents. Today, English Delftware drug jars are rare and highly collectable. The Museum of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain holds one of the finest collections of Delftware drug jars in the UK, photographed and cataloged for the first time in this publication.
 

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Contents
8
English delftware drug jars
25
Catalogue
47
Display jars
82
Ribbon cartouche
91
Cat nos 5862
192
Miscellaneous
245
Cat nos 6367
252
Early songbirds 155
262
Bibliography
264
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