Object Details
- Description
- This blown and molded square-shaped bottle has an applied neck and flared collar. The clear glass is decorated with a white baked enamel cartouche on a blue background, framed by a yellow C scroll design and capped by a crown. George Urdang, author of The Squibb Ancient Pharmacy Catalogue attributes this bottle to the Court Pharmacy of Pillnitz. It is marked in red and black OL PETERA. The bottle would have contained Oleum Petera, or Peter’s Oil. Petra is Latin for rock, so this is rock oil, commonly known as petroleum. Petroleum was used as an antispasmodic, a liniment, and an expectorant.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
- 18th century
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0187
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- catalog number
- M-05335
- 1991.0664.0187
- collector/donor number
- SAP 44
- Object Name
- bottle
- Other Terms
- bottle; PHARMACEUTICAL CONTAINER
- Physical Description
- glass (overall material)
- paint (overall material)
- colorless (overall color)
- white (overall color)
- yellow (overall color)
- blue (overall color)
- red (overall color)
- black (overall color)
- blown (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- overall: 11.5 cm x 2.6 cm x 2.8 cm; 4 1/2 in x 1 in x 1 1/8 in
- unspecified
- Germany
- 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
- Health & Medicine
- Art
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Pharmacy
- Record ID
- nmah_994154
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ab-c0de-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
