Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- This turned, wooden straight-walled drug jar with lid is painted dark red, and has a yellowish oval medallian surrounded by swaged leaves and a ribbon. The inscription in the middle of the medallian is painted in black block letters "GRANA TILLI".
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0885
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- collector/donor number
- SAP 807
- catalog number
- 1991.0664.0885.01
- 1991.0664.0885.02
- Object Name
- jar
- Other Terms
- jar; Pharmaceutical Container
- Physical Description
- turnen wood (overall production method/technique)
- wood (overall material)
- paint (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 19.2 cm x 10 cm; 7 9/16 in x 3 15/16 in
- 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
- European Apothecary
- Wood Drug Jars
- Art
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Pharmacy
- European Apothecary
- Record ID
- nmah_994324
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a8-9758-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
