Object Details
- Description
- This albarello-shaped, blown green glass drug jar has a paper cover securred to its neck with string. The jar's label is applied with the "cold paint" method. Unlike the enamel labels, there is no baking involved. Therefore it is not unusual to find the label has been badly scratched and suffered severe paint losses. The decoration appears as an upside down heart outlined in red with a stylized flower at the top. The label is marked in black and red RESIN/L SANCT. The paper cover is marked in ink, but the writing is very faint but appears to be "Refina lignla lancti factilia."
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
- 17th century
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0347
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- catalog number
- M-05496
- collector/donor number
- SAP 208
- catalog number
- 1991.0664.0347
- Object Name
- jar
- jar
- Other Terms
- jar; Pharmaceutical Container
- Physical Description
- glass (overall material)
- paint (overall material)
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 13.5 cm x 9 cm; 5 5/16 in x 3 9/16 in
- overall: 5 1/2 in x 3 3/8 in; 13.97 cm x 8.5725 cm
- Related Publication
- Urdang, George and Ferdinand William Nitardy. The Squibb Ancient Pharmacy: A Catalogue of the Collection
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- European Apothecary
- Art
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Medicine
- Pharmacy
- Record ID
- nmah_993790
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746aa-9c28-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
