Esteve Pharmacy

The Esteve Pharmacy, founded at the beginning of the 15th century,[1] is one of the oldest pharmacies in Europe and keeps a collection of albarellos from the 16th and 17th centuries, glass from the 19th century, Renaissance boxes with portraits of saints and personages, a library, laboratory instruments, antique drugs and preparations, old prescription books, and a Baroque "cordialer" cupboard made by Josep Sunyer during the period when the Esteve family managed the pharmacy for up to seven generations.

These are traditional medicinal jars designed to hold apothecaries' ointments and dry drugs.

However, the fact they had no written signs could lead to confusion, so it was common to place diagonal paper bands on the jars, labeled in Gothic letters.

Not only did he paint them, but he also imitated a polychrome contemporary production from Banyoles and drew a medallion of Louis XVI style (a clear influence from France) and yellow vertical profiling with a red ribbon.

The free space inside the oval included the written abbreviation of the jar content.