Dry drug jar, circa 1750
- Title(s):
- Dry drug jar.
- Additional Title(s):
- Bals. locat.
- Published/Created:
- Liverpool, England, circa 1750.
- Physical Description:
- 1 jar : white delftware ; 19 cm high x 15 cm in diameter
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and ManuscriptsSpencer Jar 10Yale Center for British Art, Gift of James N. Spencer and Kathleen Moretto Spencer[Request]
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/15769787
- Classification:
- Three-Dimensional Artifacts
- 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.
Title from Spencer.
Spencer, K. M. James N. Spencer Collection of English Delftware Apothecary Jars, 10
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. - Form/Genre:
- Delftware
Drug jars
Ceramic (material)
Tin glaze - Export:
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