Top view of a modern<unk>  A<unk>  is a small jar, traditionally of glazed earthenware, used by apothecaries for holding ointment or medicine. In the 21st century<unk> s 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". Another supplier offers both single-use and reusable<unk> s of 60ml and 280ml. The term, recorded from the 15th century, may derive from the idea of pots originally imported in galleys, and has also been used for small pots used for other purposes - such as preparing an individual portion of custard or melting wax while making fishing flies. The<unk>  Inn The 16th-century<unk>  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".<unk> s in a variety of shapes are held in several museums. File:Gallipot, England, probably London, c. 1760, tin-glazed earthenware, HD 91.150 - Flynt Center of Early New England Life - Deerfield, Massachusetts - DSC04326.c. 1760, English tin-glazed earthenware in the Flynt Center of Early New England Life - Deerfield, Massachusetts File:MET 24 80 157 56685.Kangxi period (1662–1722) Chinese porcelain in the Metropolitan Museum of Art File:MET 65 86 119 O1.18th-century Chinese ivory in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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