M0018621: Italian drug jar, 17th century

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Drug jar: Italian, 17th century, inscribed 'AQ-CORT-NIG'

Photograph of a drug jar decorated with oak leaves and other foliage in deep blue on a white ground. Inscribed "AQ-CORT-NIG". It was purchased by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1954 and accessioned in 1954 (accession number R60/1954)

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: R60/1954

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.