Object Details
- Description
- This cast bronze mortar has a flared mouth and a single semicircular applied handle. A metal ring encircles the handle. A vine motif decorates the rim, and six vertical ribs and a stylized floral medallion decorate the waist. The body of the mortar has a severe crack.
- Urdang believed this mortar tp be of 16th-century Greek origin.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
- ca 16th century
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0101
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- catalog number
- 1991.0664.0101
- M-05654
- collector/donor number
- SAP 366
- Object Name
- mortar
- Other Terms
- mortar; MANUFACTURING & DISPENSING EQUIP.
- Physical Description
- bronze (overall material)
- gothic (overall style)
- Measurements
- overall: 10.5 cm x 16 cm x 14.7 cm; 4 1/8 in x 6 5/16 in x 5 13/16 in
- place made
- Greece
- unspecified
- Greece
- 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_994561
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a8-759e-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
