M0018619: Italian drug jar, 17th century

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Drug jar: oak leaf and other foliage, Italian, 17th century

Photograph of a drug jar with two handles decorated with an oak leaf and other foliage in deep blue on a white ground. Inscribed "SY ROA SOL". It was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum at an unknown point and accessioned in 1959 (accession number R48/1959). It is not held by Wellcome Collection.

July 1961

1 photograph sheet film negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the item: R48/1959

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.