Dry drug jar

Date1700-1740

MediumTin-glazed earthenware (delft)

DimensionsH: 7 13/16"; D: 6"

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number1964-363

DescriptionGlobular, with lipped top opening, small spreading foot. "U LAURIN" within strap work cartouche incorporating basket of fruit at center top; small Angel's head and wings at center bottom; Song birds perched at top corners; and garlands and tassels hanging below. Underglaze blue; base glazed.
Label TextThis recipe for" Unguentum Laurinum Commune or Oyntment of Bays Common" from Nicholas Culpeper's Pharmacopoeia Londonensis (1654) was found on a piece of paper in another dry jar in the CWF collection (accession 1966-96): "Take of Bay leaves bruised one Pound, Bay-berries bruised half a Pound, Cabbage leaves, four ounces, Neats-foot oyl and five Pounds, Bullocks suet two pounds, boyl them together, and strain them, that so it may be made into an oyntment according to Art."
Inscribed"U LAURIN"
MarkingsNo
ProvenanceTilley & Co., London