M0018591: Drug jar, Dutch delftware, 1758-1764

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Drug jar - Dutch delftware. 1758-1764. 2 cherubs

Photograph of a drug har decorated with two cherubs, one holding a retort, the other the rod of Asclepius in the form of a snake coiled round an ointment spatula. Inscribed 'THERIC: AND'. It was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum at an unknown point and accessioned in 1940 (accession number R671/1940).

June 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: R671/1940

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.