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Culture:English
Title:ointment pot
Date Made:mid to late 18th century
Type:Container; Medical; Toilet Article
Materials:ceramic: tin-glazed earthenware
Place Made:United Kingdom; England
Accession Number:  HD 54.185A
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield

Description:
One of two English delft, undecorated, bowl-shaped ointment pots with an everted rim and waisted footrim. Ointment pots, which varied in size and shape, dispensed sticky or semi-liquid preparations sold by apothecaries, grocers, perfumers, etc., who often had their names and sometimes addresses inscribed on them when they ordered them in quantity from delftware factories. These pots are normally bowl-shaped with an everted rim, which could be covered with parchment secured with a string tied around the indentation below the rim. Around 1800, these delft pots were replaced with glass containers, cardboard-lined boxes, and chip boxes made of handcut wood shavings.

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