Gallipot

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Gallipot is a small jar, traditionally of glazed earthenware and used by apothecaries for holding ointment and medicine.^{[citation needed]} In the 21st century gallipots are available in plastic: one with a 60ml capacity is described in a sales catalogue as "For general use, surgical procedures, and other medical uses; Useful for holding medicines or ointments".^[1] Another supplier offers both single-use and reusable gallipots of 60ml and 280ml.^[2]

The term has also been used for a small pot used for other purposes such as preparing an individual portion of custard^[3] or melting wax while making fishing flies.^[4]

The Gallipot Inn

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, 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^[6]

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  18th-century Chinese ivory in the Metropolitan Museum of Art^[7]

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