Object Details
- Description
- This container has two twisted green and white rope-style handles and is decorated with two portraits, one of a man and one of a woman at opposite sides of the container flanked by bands of blue, yellow and green cross hatching. Blue and yellow circular bands appear at the neck and just below the portraits. The container is a little lopsided.
- George Urdang pharmaceutical historian attributes this container to either Siena or Castel Durante. In Italian Renaissance Maiolica, art historian Wendy M. Watson, notes in her that albarelli with "two handled drug jars, and decorated in the severe-style" were produced in the Tuscan region. However, exact attribution is very difficult.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
- ca 1500
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0544
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- catalog number
- M-05756
- collector/donor number
- SAP 468
- catalog number
- 1991.0664.0544
- Object Name
- jar
- jar
- Physical Description
- ceramic (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 22.8 cm x 22.4 cm x 12.5 cm; 9 in x 8 13/16 in x 4 15/16 in
- overall: 9 in x 10 1/8 in x 5 1/4 in; 22.86 cm x 25.7175 cm x 13.335 cm
- Related Publication
- Urdang, George and Ferdinand William Nitardy. The Squibb Ancient Pharmacy: A Catalogue of the Collection
- Watson, Wendy M.. Italian Renaissance Maiolica: from the Willaim A. Clark Collection
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- European Apothecary
- Art
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Medicine
- Pharmacy
- Record ID
- nmah_993639
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a8-a537-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
