Gallipot
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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: a sales catalogue describes one with a 60ml capacity as "For general use, surgical procedures, and other medical uses; Useful for holding medicines or ointments".[2] Another supplier offers both single-use and reusable gallipots of 60ml and 280ml.[3]
The term, recorded from the 15th century, may derive from the idea of pots originally imported in galleys,[4] and has also been used for small pots used for other purposes - such as preparing an individual portion of custard[5] or melting wax while making fishing flies.[6]
![A building outside which stands a pub sign with the wording "The Gallipot Inn 16th century freehouse"](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/The_Gallipot_Inn_-_geograph.org.uk_-_456441.jpg/220px-The_Gallipot_Inn_-_geograph.org.uk_-_456441.jpg)
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".[7]
Gallipots in a variety of shapes are held in several museums.
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c. 1760, English tin-glazed earthenware in the Flynt Center of Early New England Life - Deerfield, Massachusetts
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Kangxi period (1662–1722) Chinese porcelain in the Metropolitan Museum of Art[8]
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18th-century Chinese ivory in the Metropolitan Museum of Art[9]
References
[edit]- ^ "Gallipot". Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary. Retrieved 16 Apr 2022.
- ^ "60ml Sterile Gallipot". www.sja.org.uk. St John Ambulance. Retrieved 28 April 2021.
- ^ "Search results for: 'gallipot'". UK Medisave UK View. Retrieved 28 April 2021.
- ^ "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.