M0011900: Photograph of a 15th or 16th century cylindrical drug jar from Valencia, Spain

Photograph of a 15th or 16th century cylindrical drug jar from Valencia, Spain. The original jar is described as being maiolica ware (tin-glazed pottery decorated in blue on a white background) in the accession register for the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1926. The photograph was probably used for the publication Catalogue of an Exhibition illustrating The History of Pharmacy, an exhibition held at the Wellcome Research Institution, London, 4 May - 28 September 1951. The drug jar is no longer held by Wellcome Collection.

1951

1 photograph glass plate negative; 16.5 x 12 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the item (acc. number R17341).
The photograph is listed as figure 9 in the exhibition catalogue. A digitised version is available online.

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.