Object Details
- Description
- This ovoid–shaped drug container has a slender neck and a pinched spout. The jar is decorated with a blue floral design, and is marked around the center “FENICV.” The jar would have contained Feniculum (or foeniculum), also known as fennel. Fennel was used as a carminative, an expectorant, and a diuretic.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
- ca 1700
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0642
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- catalog number
- M-05854
- collector/donor number
- SAP 566
- catalog number
- 1991.0664.0642
- Object Name
- jug
- jug
- Physical Description
- ceramic (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 24.5 cm x 15.5 cm; 9 21/32 in x 6 3/32 in
- overall: 10 in x 6 1/2 in; 25.4 cm x 16.51 cm
- place made
- Italy: Liguria, Savona
- 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_993641
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746aa-b519-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
