M0017487: Alcock leech jar

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Alcock-type leech jar.

Photograph of a Staffordshire ware Essex type leech jar decorated in dark blue, yellow and gold on a white ground. Marked on the bottom with "Alcock" and a beehive. , It was purchased by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1917 and accessioned in 1959 (accession number R92/1959)

1959

1 photograph glass plate negative; 10.2 x 12.7

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the item: R92/1959

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.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.