Object Details
- Description
- Short, squat-shaped, brass mortar with wide mouth. Four baluster columns alternate between four stylized flowers. The band of writing just below the mouth is mostly illegible, except for the Roman numeral "MDCCXXXIII." Urdang believed this mortar to be from Spain.
- Testing with a X-Ray floesence spectrometer indicates the chemical composition of this mortar is about 81% copper, 14% Zinc, 3% tin, 2 % lead and trace metals.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
- 1773
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0106
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- catalog number
- M-05659
- collector/donor number
- SAP 371
- Object Name
- mortar
- Other Terms
- mortar; MANUFACTURING & DISPENSING EQUIP.
- Physical Description
- bronze (overall material)
- cast (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- overall: 9.6 cm x 14.7 cm; 3 3/4 in x 5 13/16 in
- unspecified
- Spain
- 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_994072
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ab-c1b7-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
