Object Details
- Description
- This is a blue, yellow and green tin glazed waisted drug jar. The jar is decorated with a painted female mythological figure with a swan in one hand and flowers in the other, set against a landscape. On either side of the figure are vertical bands of foliage. An escrol above the figure is marked “THERIACA ANDROMACHI.” Theriac, an opium compound, was thought to be a panacea for a variety of diseases and an antidote for poison. Andromachus served as the Roman Emperor Nero’s physician, and this opium compound would have contained his formulation of the medicine.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
- 1700 - 1799
- 18th century
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0646
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- catalog number
- M-05858
- collector/donor number
- SAP 570
- catalog number
- 1991.0664.0646
- Object Name
- jar
- jar, albarello
- Other Terms
- jar; Pharmaceutical Container
- Physical Description
- ceramic (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 27.7 cm x 16 cm; 10 29/32 in x 6 5/16 in
- overall: 11 1/4 in x 6 1/8 in; 28.575 cm x 15.5575 cm
- place made
- Italy
- 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
- Mythology
- Pharmacy
- Record ID
- nmah_993466
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b2-a234-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
