Object Details
- Description
- Short, squat, cast bronze mortar with a flared mouth. Four buttress columns alternate between the head of a woman. Urdang suggests the mortar is 16th century spanish and that the face is that of Medusa.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
- ca 16th century
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0104
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- catalog number
- M-05657
- collector/donor number
- SAP 369
- Object Name
- mortar
- Other Terms
- mortar; MANUFACTURING & DISPENSING EQUIP.
- Physical Description
- bronze (overall material)
- gothic (overall style)
- Measurements
- overall: 7.7 cm x 11.1 cm; 3 1/16 in x 4 3/8 in
- place made
- Spain
- 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
- Art
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Pharmacy
- Record ID
- nmah_994070
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ab-c1b5-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
