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In this case it was used for dispensing syrup of quinces, which presumably had some soothing or laxative properties. The narrow foot enabled it to be pulled out from a row of jars on the pharmacy shelf. The handle at the back was used to tilt it forward and pour out a measure of the sticky contents. Flanges on the rim and spout enabled paper or parchment covers to be tied on.<br><br><b>Materials & Making</b><br>The earliest Netherlandish potters to set up delftware (tin-glazed earthenware) manufacture in England aimed specifically at the market for floor tiles and pharmacy jars. Both these types could be painted with cobalt blue and other oxide colours, which was of course essential for labelling pharmacy jars. The <i> albarello</i>  (a tall jar for dry preparations of drugs, with a slim waist, which could easily be grasped on the shelf) and the footed jar for 'wet' drugs formed the two standard types. They were made continuously in England from the late 16th century. By 1800 delftware had given way to Staffordshire Pearlware. By the 1830s some Derbyshire brown stoneware drug pots were made, with metal lids and impressed names. During the 19th century prepared medicines in labelled glass bottles gradually became available.","physicalDescription":"One side is painted in blue with a riband inscribed S. CYDONIORU surmounted by a winged angel's head.  The riband has two knotted ends with fluttering terminals which hang down, the left one inscribed S.\nBody colour: Buff.\nGlaze: Pinkish white, lightly crazed.  The interior of the trumpet-shaped foot is glazed with the exception of a band some three cms wide at the foot-rim which is wiped entirely clean of glaze.\nShape: Handle rounded on inside, concave on outside with a ridge terminal.  The trumpet-shaped foot is hollow, luted separately on to the body.  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A catalogue of the collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum</font>. London: HMSO, in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1997. ISBN 0 11 290499 8"},{"reference":{"text":"Hildyard, Robin. European Ceramics. London: V&A Publications, 1999.","id":"AUTH406296"},"details":"","free":""}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"ribbon","id":"AAT14668"},{"text":"wing","id":"x34900"},{"text":"mask","id":"x30067"},{"text":"angel","id":"x31516"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"British Galleries:\nTIN-GLAZED EARTHENWARE<br>\nTin-glazed earthenware could easily be painted, though in a limited range of colours. This made it the ideal material for neatly-labelled pharmacy drug pots, dishes with bold stylised patterns or presentation pieces like this candlestick. When City of London livery companies melted down their silver-gilt objects during the Civil War, they often commissioned replacements made in tin-glazed earthenware and painted with their arms.  However, this earthenware, a relatively fragile material, was never adopted by the English nobility, as it was in Spain and France.","date":{"text":"27/03/2003","earliest":"2003-03-27","latest":"2003-03-27"}}],"partNumbers":["C.187-1991"],"accessionNumberNum":"187","accessionNumberPrefix":"C","accessionYear":1991,"otherNumbers":[{"type":{"text":"<u>Delftware</u> (1997) cat. no.","id":"THES50964"},"number":"K4."}],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":["2019LR1387","2019LR1060","2019LV5185"],"recordModificationDate":"2025-06-24","recordCreationDate":"2000-01-29","availableToBook":false}}