Vegetable ingredients included culinary herbs, fruits, roots, leaves, seeds, flowers, wood, oils, gums and resins. Īnimal, mineral and vegetable ingredients were stored in the jars. Jars were widely used in Europe and Latin America at the beginning of the 19th century but during the 18th and 19th centuries production of glass storage bottles was increased. Potteries producing jars were located in Spain, France, Italy, Sicily, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Holland, Sweden, and Britain. Other items used by apothecaries were dispensing and ointment pots, pill tiles and mortars. Other jars were ovoid or globular in shape. A parchment cover could be tied over the flange to seal the contents. The albarello is cylindrical in shape usually with a narrow waist it has a flange at the open end. The style of jar known as albarello also came from the Middle Eastern Islamic potters. These different terms referred not to technical differences in the jars' manufacture but stylistic differences. The tin glaze technique which allowed decoration of the jars was known in Europe as maiolica, faience or delftware. Jars from Syria and Persia were taken to Spain from the 13th to 14th centuries after which Spanish and Italian potters began to manufacture jars. By the 12th to 13th centuries jars were lustreware which gave a sheen to the surface of the jars. The tin glaze was believed to have originated in Mesopotamia in 600–400 B.C. A number of innovations occurred in Western Asia regarding pottery decoration, particularly the development of tin glazes to enable jars to contain fluids. The technology appears to have originated in Mesopotamia in 600–400 B.C. Earthenware storage jars for drugs have been found on archaeological sites in Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Greece and Rome.
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