Object Details
- Description
- This straight walled drug container has a flared lip and base. The jar has a white tin glazed background and is decorated with a blue crown flanked by blue vines, leaves, and flowers. A maker’s mark is on the bottom of the container. George Urdang attributes the jar to 18th-century Rheinisberg, a small town near Berlin. The crown is the royal Prussian crown.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
- 18th century
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0721
- catalog number
- M-05933
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- collector/donor number
- SAP 645
- catalog number
- 1991.0664.0721
- Object Name
- jar
- jar
- Physical Description
- ceramic (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 12.1 cm x 10 cm; 4 3/4 in x 3 15/16 in
- overall: 4 3/4 in x 3 3/4 in; 12.065 cm x 9.525 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_994537
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a8-559f-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
