M0018723EB and M0018724EB: Two Dutch pharmacy jars

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

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Drug jar - Syrup jar shape. Dutch. Cheub's head above label panel and grotesque haed below

Photograph of two Dutch pharmacy jars, syrup-jar shaped. One is decorated with a peacock and basket of flowers device and is inscribed "S.MIRTIN". It was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum at an unknown point and accessioned in 1940 (accession number R754/1940). The other is decorated with a cheub's head above the label panel and a grotesque haed below. Inscribed "OXIMEL . SIMPLEX". It was acquired by the Museum at an unknown point and accessioned in 1926 (accession number R17349). Neither is held by Wellcome Collection. Related images: M0018723EA, M0018724EA

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: R754/1940 and R17349

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.