A gallipot is a small jar, traditionally of glazed earthenware, used by apothecaries for holding ointment or medicine.[1] In the 21st century, gallipots are available in plastic as well.
The term gallipot, recorded from the 15th century, may derive from the idea of pots originally imported in galleys,[2] and has also been used for small pots used for other purposes – such as preparing an individual portion of custard[3] or melting wax while making fishing flies.[4]
The 16th-century Gallipot Inn in Hartfield, Sussex, England, is said to take its name "from the small glazed earthenware pots made to contain medicines and ointments that were once produced on-site".[5]
Gallipots in a variety of shapes are held in several museums.
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c. 1760, an English tin-glazed earthenware gallipot -
![Kangxi period (1662–1722) Chinese porcelain gallipot in the Metropolitan Museum of Art[6]](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/MET_24_80_157_56685.jpg/70px-MET_24_80_157_56685.jpg)
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![18th-century Chinese ivory gallipot in the Metropolitan Museum of Art[7]](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/MET_65_86_119_O1.jpg/47px-MET_65_86_119_O1.jpg)
18th-century Chinese ivory gallipot in the Metropolitan Museum of Art[7]
![Kangxi period (1662–1722) Chinese porcelain gallipot in the Metropolitan Museum of Art[6]](/wiki/File:MET_24_80_157_56685.jpg)
![18th-century Chinese ivory gallipot in the Metropolitan Museum of Art[7]](/wiki/File:MET_65_86_119_O1.jpg){kind=small}
References
edit- ^ "Gallipot". Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary. Retrieved 16 Apr 2022.
- ^ "gallipot". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.)
- ^ National Training School for Cookery (London) (1877). "Sickroom cookery: Savoury custard". The Official Handbook for the National Training School for Cookery: Containing the Lessons on Cookery which Constitute the Course of Instruction in the School. Chapman and Hall. p. 404.
We take a small gallipot and butter it inside
- ^ Hutchinson, Horace Gordon (1851). Fly-fishing in Salt and Fresh Water. J. Van Voorst. p. 55. Retrieved 28 April 2021.
To dissolve the wax, put a small piece in a gallipot [...] then put the gallipot in a cup of warm water
- ^ "The Gallipot Inn". www.foodanddrinkguides.co.uk. 14 December 2015. Retrieved 28 April 2021.
- ^ "Vase (gallipot)". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved 28 April 2021.
- ^ "Gallipot, 18th century". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved 28 April 2021.
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