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Lot Essay
A European form used for liquid medicines and made in both Japan and China at this stage in the China trade, sometimes labelled with the initials of potential contents or of an owner. D.S. Howard, The Choice of the Private Trader, p. 204 points out that the "double rings enabled a skin or parchment strip to be tied with a thong over the mouth which could be then sealed with hot wax"