Apothecary bottles go all the way back to the Roman era when they were used to store herbal extracts and oils.

But a special group, usually apothecary bottles or special gifts, were made with "labels under glass." The medical bottles usually had a label with a black name written in fancy type, gold leaf ...

Apothecary bottles go all the way back to the Roman ... generally more angular than the glassware of today, and a paper label denoting the contents (often in Latin) was pasted or glassed over ...