Object Details
- Description
- Short, squat-shaped, bronze mortar with a flared mouth. Four buttress columns alternating between four shields. The shields are coats of arms which are divided into three sections, a crown sits atop each shield and two castles above a running animal. The exterior surface between the neck and the foot has a sandpaper-like quality.
- Urdang attributes this mortar to 16th century Spain.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
- ca 16th century
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0105
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- catalog number
- M-05658
- collector/donor number
- SAP 370
- catalog number
- 1991.0664.0105
- Object Name
- mortar
- mortar
- Other Terms
- mortar; MANUFACTURING & DISPENSING EQUIP.
- Physical Description
- bronze (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 8 cm x 11.7 cm; 3 1/8 in x 4 5/8 in
- overall: 3 1/4 in x 4 3/4 in; 8.255 cm x 12.065 cm
- place made
- Spain
- unspecified
- 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_994071
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ab-c0eb-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
