Ampulla

Large Becket Ampulla
Period: 14th/16th century

Material: pewter

The inscription on this spectacular ampulla can be translated “Thomas is the best doctor of the worthy sick.” Pilgrims to Canterbury would have taken home water from the shrine in…
€ 20,⁰⁰
Canterbury Ampulla
Period: 14th/16th cenyury

Material: pewter

This ampulla was copied from an example now in Salisbury
€ 15,⁰⁰
Small ampulla
Period: 11th/12th cenyury

Material: pewter

The ampulla this is copied from was among the earliest pilgrim signs from the shrine of St. Thomas Becket (killed in 1170).
€ 10,⁰⁰
Reliquary Ampulla
Period: 12th/13th century

Material: pewter

Based Spencer, Brian. Pilgrim Souvenirs and Secular Badges. Museum of London, 1998. Nos. 200-201.
€ 15,⁰⁰