VICTORIAN APOTHECARY JAR translated from the Persian language

translated from the Persian language as a box for pen storage

hand-fired of clay and bound together by thin wood beams and thin wood sheets

is elegant and stately in its silhouette

This vessel has been used to its very core and some would say past the point of repair

The design that is customary of the period

VICTORIAN APOTHECARY JAR translated from the Persian languageThis antique apothecary jar is one of three, from Burnley, Lancashire. It is has a delicate crazing pattern throughout; not to be confused with cracks, this is a phenomenon that occurs in some ceramics where an intricate spider web like design appears overtime in the glaze of a piece of pottery. While the other two jars from this set still maintain their original chemist label, this one is bare of any stickers but is still believed to be from the same