M0018725 and M0018726: Two French pharmacy jars from Lille

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Drug jar - cylindrical. Lille. Label panel with woman's head.

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Drug jar - cylindrical. Lille. Label panel with Satyr's head below.

Photograph of two pharmacy jars from Lillle. One has a label panel with a woman's head with rings round the neck below and is inscribed "C. ANTHOS". It was purchased by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1909 and accessioned in 1926 (accession number R17500). The other has a label panel with a satyr's head below and is inscribed "C.ROSMARINI". It was acquired by the Museum at an unknown point and given accession number A169580

August 1961

1 photograph sheet film negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for one of the items: R17500

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.

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