Description:
English delft cylindrical gallipot, storage jar, or drug jar decorated with eight blue bands. Made through the 17th and 18th centuries, gallipots, which are simple cylindrical jars often with geometric designs, were used extensively for medical preparations before labeled drug jars began to appear. Although associated with doctors and apothecaries until the late 18th century, they were ideal general-purpose storage containers for such items as groceries and pigments, and are frequently mentioned in 17 and 18th-century cooking and receipt books. The jar has an everted rim, which could be covered with parchment secured with a string, and a flared flat base. Similar gallipot fragments have been found in excavations in London and throughout the colonies, including Virginia, Middletown, Connecticut, Maine, and here in Deerfield from the Williams family.
Subjects:
Pottery; glaze (coating by location) Link to share this object record:
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