Drug jar
Pots like these were used to store ointments and were made by various pottery workshops across Europe. This decorated tin-glazed earthenware jar was made in Holland, and discovered during excavations in Exeter.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 300/1988/2823
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Exeter archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- Exeter Museums Archaeological Field Unit
- Material
- potterytin-glazed earthenwareDelftware
- Common Name
- drug jar
- Simple Name
- drug bottle
- Period Classification
- Post Medieval (1500-1750)
- Production Year Low
- 1690
- Production Year High
- 1720
