Old Paris Jars

4 French Victorian white porcelain apothecary jars with decorative rectangular decal with floral trim. (PRICED EACH, please specify jar label ...

Hard paste porcelain with polychrome and gold leaf - iron bolt. Impasto decoration. Lovely colors. These classical form urns are clearly a pair, but not an identical pair. Each has a...

Set of 3 French Antique Porcelain Apothecary Jars. Each with the corresponding names of the drugs that was contained in the jars. Han...

More information coming soon… This wonderful set of 10 French apothecary jars would make wonderful additions to a kitchen, either as decorative objects or as functional spice holder...

Pair of antique apothecary jars labeled in latin and hand decorated with tropical scenes with flowers.

A beautiful and rare set of six (6) high-quality hand painted French apothecary jars, each with a different label, painted in a Régence style in blue and yellow, with separate domed ...

A wonderful set of large lidded urn shaped apothecary style spice jars, made from a low fired type of unglazed terracotta or earthenware. These jars ha...

A set of six 19th century French glass apothecary jars or bottles with red painted tin lids. Hand-blown clear glass. Original gold foil labels: Acetas Plumbicus (Lead Acetate) Racin...

The jar maintains its original painted label in a beautiful orange and gold patina. While the jar is now empty the label translates from the French word Chiendent to Quackgrass in En...

This beautiful pair of 19th century French porcelain apothecary jars exemplifies the artistry and craftsmanship of early pharmacy containers. Each jar features a slightly domed lid with a round finial, delicately highlighted with gilt accents. The bodies are hand-painted with rich polychrome decoration, including palm trees, medical caduceus symbols, and stylized serpents entwined around classical columns—traditional emblems of medicine and healing. The jars are inscribed with their original Latin labels: CONS: TAMAR: (Conserve of Tamarind) and EXT: PAPAV: (Extract of Poppy), both once commonly used in apothecaries for medicinal remedies. Their elegant design combines functionality with refined decoration, making them as decorative as they are historic. These jars would have originally been displayed in a 19th century pharmacy, both as storage vessels and as visible markers of important remedies. Today, they make striking decorative pieces for collectors of antique medical instruments...

A Set of Five Lidded Paris Porcelain Apothecary Jars Each of the porcelain jars have a cone-shaped lid with a ball finial, the front of the jars decorated with polychrome and gilded...

A very fine antique faience pottery jar. The jar is marked for "Semi D' Agno Custo". It held vitex or chaste tree seeds (semi d'agnosasto...