Medical ceramics : a catalogue of the English and Dutch collections in the Museum of the Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine / J.K. Crellin.

  • Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine
Date:
1969-
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Credit: Medical ceramics : a catalogue of the English and Dutch collections in the Museum of the Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine / J.K. Crellin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    black band around the neck and one around the foot. Blue waist decorations with an orange zigzag line separating the chevrons. 11-3 x 8-3 cm. (Fig. 3.) 2-10. Nine jars with straight to slightly convex sides. Waist decorations 2B-H. Six jars are decorated in blue, one in maroon, one in maroon and blue, and one in blue and orange. Size range 9-7 x 11-7 to 12-9 x 18-5 cm. (Figs. 4 and 5 for numbers 3 and 7.) b. Designs with blue horizontal bands around neck and foot. Various waist decorations. (For waist decorations see fig. 2.) 11-20. Ten jars with straight to convex sides. Waist decorations 2C, D, I, J, K, L. The jar with waist decoration 2K also has two green lines surrounding it and probably dates from the 19th century. Size range 6-5 x 10-3 to 11-3x15 cm. (Fig. 6 for number 15, ajar with a thickened rim not common on these storage jars.) c. Designs with maroon horizontal bands around neck and foot, blue waist decorations. (For waist decorations see fig. 2.) 21-27. Seven jars with straight or slightly convex sides. Waist decorations 2C and L. Size range: 8-8 x 10-8 to 9-3 x 12 cm. d. As c. but with maroon waist decorations. (For waist decorations see fig. 2.) 28-29. Two jars with slightly convex sides, one with waist decoration 2L and the other 2M. Both c. 8 x 11 cm. 30. An unusually large jar with straight sides and blue tinted glaze. Hole in centre of base (used as flowerpot?). Waist decoration 2N. 15 x 17-5 cm. (Fig. 7.) e. Design of blue horizontal bands only. 31-36. Six jars with straight or slightly convex waists. Size range 8-4 x 9-4 to 12*2 x 14-4 cm. 37-47. Eleven cylindrical jars (no feet) with everted rims. The nature of the blue tinted glaze on some of these jars suggests an 18th-century date. 29 These eleven jars are the only unlabelled cylindrical ones in the Wellcome Collection. Size range 6-1 x 6-9 to 17-7 x 13-8 cm. (Four examples are illustrated in fig. 8.) f. Miscellaneous. (For waist decorations see fig. 2.) 48. Albarello, badly potted. Decorated with horizontal bands and waist decoration 20. Colours: blue and yellow-orange. The yellow-orange horizontal bands may reflect Con tinental origin; Wittop Koning has illustrated two pots with yellow-orange bands which, he says, indicate Rotterdam production. 30 10-3 x 9-4 cm. 49. Jar with straight waist. Decorated with horizontal lines and waist decoration 2F. Colours: blue, orange, and maroon. 9-8 x 15-3 cm. 50. Squat jar with slightly concave waist. Biscuit condition. 7-6 x 10 cm. 29 J. Ashdown has kindly informed me that a similar jar found inside a creamware chamber pot (i.e. c. last quarter 18th century) was excavated near Lambeth bridge in 1963. See p. 11, footnote 27, for an 18th-century reference to use of gallipots. 30 Wittop Koning, D. A. [ed.], Art and Pharmacy, Deventer, 1964. Plate 14.
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