Object Details
- Description
- This turned wooden straight walled drug jar is painted red with a red lid. The jar is decorated with an ivory-colored oval medallion outlined in black. The interior of the medallion is painted white and is marked, “CORAL/ R PP” in black. Two vertical lines intersect the stem of the P. This is the alchemical symbol for powder.
- This red-colored container was used to store powdered coral. Coral was used for centuries for a variety of ills including but not limited to the reduction of fever, the prevention of bleeding in pregnant women, for gastric pain and to protect infants from convulsions.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
- 18th century
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0884
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- catalog number
- M-06094
- collector/donor number
- SAP 806
- catalog number
- 1991.0664.0884.01
- 1991.0664.0884.02
- Object Name
- jar
- Physical Description
- wood (overall material)
- paint (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 11.2 cm x 6.2 cm; 4 13/32 in x 2 7/16 in
- overall: 4 3/8 in x 2 1/2 in; 11.1125 cm x 6.35 cm
- place made
- Germany
- 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_994323
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a8-75eb-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
