M0018618: Leech jar of Staffordshire pottery, 19th century

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Leech jar of Staffordshire pottery. 19th century.

Photograph of a Staffordshire pottery jar with two handles decorated in dark blue and gold on a white ground. It was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum at an unknown point and accessioned in 1939 (accession number R3178/1939). 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: R3178/1939

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.