Pharmacy jar for bayberry poultice

Deruta, Italy

Perhaps Masci family

Around 1500–10

Tin-glazed earthenware

Diameter: 23.7 cm

This jar’s sticky contents were applied hot to the skin to calm rashes, stings and bites and to ease digestion.

Mark Gambier-Parry bequest, 1966

Photo Ⓒ The Courtauld