English Delftware Drug Jars: The Collection of the Museum of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great BritainBriony Hudson 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. |
Contents
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 |
264 | |
Common terms and phrases
150 mm PROVENANCE ACCESSION NUMBER Angel with outspread base rims base with unglazed Bought in 1957 Bulbous jar Cherub Cherub and shell Compleat English Dispensatory CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNT crazed and flaked DATE OF MANUFACTURE Dated English Delftware Delftware Drug Jars DESCRIPTION design in blue drug jar Cat Dry drug jar Electuary English Delftware Drug everted with unglazed glaze crazed glaze flaked glaze with pinkish glazed rim Height Howard Collection iiss jar on spreading Label panel curved Label panel straight London DIMENSIONS Lothian maximum width 150 MEANING OF INSCRIPTION Michael Hastings mm PROVENANCE narrow ridges encircling neck and base Neck everted Neck ridged outspread wings Ovoid jar panel curved slightly pinkish tinge PLACE OF MANUFACTURE Quincy ridges encircling bowl Sagapenum shell INSCRIPTION slightly towards splayed Slipware Society of Apothecaries Spikenard splayed base spreading foot syrup tapering slightly Thackray Museum tin-glazed tinge and design unglazed edge unglazed rim Wet drug jar White glaze