Object Details
- Description
- This wide mouthed waisted drug jar has a yellow square border that frames a scene with a monk kneeling in prayer in front of a tree. The jar bears the text Elect. Rosat. Sol. The jar would have contained Electuary Rosatus Solutivus, a solution made from rose petals and sweetened with the addition of sugar. The solution was used as an aperient, or appetite stimulant. In a letter dated 7 October 1983, pharmaceutical historian and author Dr. D. A. Wittop Koning speculates that this drug jar is probably not authentic.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
- 16th century
- 1756
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0513
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- catalog number
- M-05725
- collector/donor number
- SAP 437
- catalog number
- 1991.0664.0513
- Object Name
- jar
- Physical Description
- ceramic (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 15.3 cm x 12.3 cm; 6 1/32 in x 4 27/32 in
- 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_993471
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a8-9e1b-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
