Object Details
- Description
- Containers with blank labels could be filled with different ingredients depending on the apothecaries needs. When the contents of the jars were replaced, apothecaries would write the appropriate name in the medallion.
- Urdang attributes the containers 1991.0664.0760 through 1991.0664.0825 decorated to the town of Hanau in the late 18th century based on the blue and purple floral design surrounding the white medallion and the initials HN on the bottom of many of the jars in the series. However, in a letter dated August 1983, the pharmaceutical history scholar Wolfgang-Hagen Hein believes the unmarked containers and those marked FH were made in Florsheim in the German state of Hesse just twenty-three miles southwest of Hanau.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
- 1790-1810
- 1775 - 1799
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0771
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- catalog number
- M-05983
- collector/donor number
- SAP 695
- catalog number
- 1991.0664
- Object Name
- jar
- Other Terms
- jar; Pharmaceutical Container
- Physical Description
- ceramic (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 16.2 cm x 10.2 cm; 6 3/8 in x 4 1/32 in
- place made
- Germany
- Related Publication
- Hein, W.H., and D.A. Wittop Koning. Deutsche Apotheken-Fayencen
- 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_993720
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a8-7e48-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
