M0018794: Three pharmacy jars, or albarelli, Portuguese, 17th century

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Three drug jars, Albarelli, small foliate and floral designs in blue, Portuguese, 17th century

Photograph of three Portuguese blue and white delftware pharmacy jars. The left and right jars may be from same set, and are labelled in Manganese. All three were acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum as part of the Debacq Collection in 1919 and accessioned in 1926 (accession numbers left to right: R17281, R17285 and R17277).

August 1961

1 photograph sheet film negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides entries for the items: R17277, R17281 and R17285. Wellcome also holds a file about the Debacq Collection: WA/HMM/CM/Col/32

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.