Items from Society’s Museum featured in new book on drug jars
 This book contains the first ever comprehensive survey and catalogue of the collection of English delftware drug jars held in the Museum of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society. The book also includes details of tin-glazed barbers' bowls, pill tiles and posset pots in the collections.
Delftware drug jars were originally manufactured in London around 1570.
They were expensive, highly prized objects, used by successful apothecaries
for storage of pills, ointments, syrups, oils and confections. They were
often highly decorated or labelled to indicate their contents.
Today, English delftware drug jars are rare and highly collectable. The
Society’s museum holds one of the finest collections of delftware
drug jars in the UK and this collection has been photographed and catalogued
for the first time.
The book includes details about the history of the Society’s delftware
collection, the history of English delftware drug jars, delftware manufacture
in London and 220 individual colour photos of drug jars and other delftware
items, with full catalogue entries including a description of the jar,
its manufacturer and date.
This unique and specialist publication is edited by Briony Hudson, keeper
of the museum collections at the Society, and will appeal to historians,
collectors and libraries alike and also to anyone with an interest in
archaeology and medicinal history.
The 272-page hardback book costs £95.00.
UK orders can be placed by telephone (01767 604 971), fax (01767 601
640 or e-mail (rps@turpin-distribution.com) or through the Pharmaceutical
Press website
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