Object Details
- Description
- Gothic-style bronze mortar with flared mouth and four vertical ribs in a "tears" pattern extending out from just below the neck to the bottom of the mortar. Urdang attributes this mortar to 15th century France.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0096
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- catalog number
- M-05649
- collector/donor number
- SAP 361
- Object Name
- mortar
- mortar
- Other Terms
- mortar; MANUFACTURING & DISPENSING EQUIP.
- Physical Description
- bronze (overall material)
- gothic (overall style)
- Measurements
- overall: 8.4 cm x 10.6 cm; 3 5/16 in x 4 3/16 in
- overall: 3 1/4 in x 4 3/8 in; 8.255 cm x 11.1125 cm
- 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
- Art
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Pharmacy
- Record ID
- nmah_994063
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a8-783c-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
