Object Details
- Description
- This bulbous drug jar has a long neck and flared foot. The white tin glazed background is decorated with a cobalt blue cartouche created by C scrolls, swags, and the head of an angel. Atop the cartouche are two angels flanking the mark, “IHS” with a cross above the H and three nails below.
- The center of the cartouche is marked, “A: HYSSOPI:.” Hyssop is a plant native to the Mediterranean and is used as an expectorant, and a stimulant, and for pulmonary disorders. Hyssop was often administered as an infusion or tea.
- Apothecary jars were produced in many towns and cities throughout the Netherlands. The Dutch containers in the Bristol Myers Squibb Collection are decorated with cobalt blue over a white tin glaze. Among the most common decorative motifs found on Dutch apothecary jars are peacocks, stags and angels.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0835
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- catalog number
- M-06047
- collector/donor number
- SAP 759
- catalog number
- 1991.0664.0835
- Object Name
- jar
- jar
- Physical Description
- ceramic (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 26 cm x 15 cm; 10 1/4 in x 5 29/32 in
- overall: 10 1/8 in x 5 7/8 in; 25.7175 cm x 14.9225 cm
- place made
- Netherlands
- Related Publication
- Wittop Koning, D.A.. Delftse Apothekers Potten
- Urdang, George and Ferdinand William Nitardy. The Squibb Ancient Pharmacy: A Catalogue of the Collection
- Pharmacy In History
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- European Apothecary
- Religion
- Art
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Pharmacy
- Record ID
- nmah_994287
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a8-a508-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
