Antique British Betel Nut Toothpaste Apothecary Jar with Gilded Border Kikuyu portrait measured corner to corner

measured corner to corner

with a small ink smear below the pipe

brush side up

but none as striking and unusual as this one

lined in orange fabric

Antique British Betel Nut Toothpaste Apothecary Jar with Gilded Border Kikuyu portrait measured corner to cornerI love these old late 19th c. transfer printed porcelain apothecary jars, most of them made for toothpaste, which, by the 1880s, most pharmacists were making formulating their own recipes for. This one, for Bell's Betel Nut Toothpaste (the betel nuts, also known as areca nuts, presumably imported from Southeast Asia) was produced by Ferris and Co in Bristol, England, "Chemists to the Queen"and is fairly rare in featuring a gilded border. 3 3 8" in