Object Details
- Description
- This vase-shaped drug jar has a flared lip and applied round foot. The Baroque-style blue and yellow label with a white oval shield is not marked. Containers with blank labels could be filled with different ingredients depending on the apothecary's needs. When the contents of the jars were replaced the apothecary would write the appropriate name on the medallion.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
- 18th century
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0470
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- catalog number
- M-05619
- collector/donor number
- SAP 331
- catalog number
- 1991.0664.0470
- Object Name
- jar
- Physical Description
- glass (overall material)
- paint (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 10.1 cm x 5.5 cm; 4 in x 2 3/16 in
- 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
- Health & Medicine
- European Apothecary
- Art
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Pharmacy
- Record ID
- nmah_994208
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746aa-cb92-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
