Object Details
- Description
- This urn–shaped drug jar has a grayish–white glaze, a straight neck, and a round, domed foot. A rectangular label is formed at the center of the jar by thin lines of brown, orange, and yellow, topped by four C–scrolls forming a blue cartouche with a yellow and orange center. The label creates a frame for the jars inscription. The outer frame is surrounded at its top and bottom by green and blue vines and swags of yellow beads.
- The inscription reads Bolus Arme nica. Correspondence in 1954 between Division of Medicine Associate Curator George Griffenhagen and George Urdang notes that the jars appear to be of Catalonian–Aragonese origin. The jar would have contained Bolus Armenica, or Armenian Bole. Bolus Armenus consisted of clay and aluminum silicate. It was used as an astringent, and as an absorbent to stop the flow of blood.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
- 18th century
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0565
- collector/donor number
- SAP 489
- catalog number
- M-05777
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- catalog number
- 1991.0664.0565
- Object Name
- jar
- Physical Description
- ceramic (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 25.5 cm x 14 cm; 10 1/32 in x 5 1/2 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_994233
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a8-d468-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
