M0019272: Savona pharmacy jar, 18th century

Previous title, replaced July 2022: Drug jar (globular in shape), inscribed 'AQa DI CICORCIA', Northern Italy, 18th century

Photograph of a globular shaped pharmacy jar decorated with a design of birds, dogs, insects and foliage in blue on a white ground, with a label inscribed "AQUA DI CICORCIA". It was aquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum at an unknown point and accessioned in 1926 (accession number R17115). Related images: M0019272EA

December 1962

1 photograph sheet film negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the item: R17115

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.