Object Details
- Description
- This blown-glass, urn-shaped drug jar has a long neck and applied foot. The label has been applied using a cold paint technique rather than being baked or fused with high heat. The label consists of a gold oval outlined in red with the text, Oleum ae Serpylli in black. The jar would have contained oil of thyme, which could have been prescribed as an antiseptic or expectorant. Urdang refers to this type of bottle as "noennchen", or "little nuns" in English. This is one of a group of five containers of the same size and shape.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
- 18th century
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0398
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- catalog number
- M-05547
- collector/donor number
- SAP 259?
- catalog number
- 1991.0664.0398
- Object Name
- bottle
- Other Terms
- bottle; Pharmaceutical Container
- Physical Description
- glass (overall material)
- paint (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 8.2 cm x 4.2 cm; 3 1/4 in x 1 5/8 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
- Religion
- Art
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Pharmacy
- Record ID
- nmah_993806
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746aa-b5a3-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
