Object Details
- Description
- This wide mouth jar has a flared collar and an applied circular foot. The clear glass is decorated with a baked enamel cartouche. A white shield on a blue background is framed by a yellow C-scroll design and capped by a crown. Urdang attributes this jar to the Court Pharmacy of Pillnitz, which today is a city quarter in eastern Dresden, Germany. It is marked PECTORAL B W with red initial letters and the alchemical symbol for powder. A pectoral was a poultice or ointment used in the treatment of upper-respiratory ailments.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
- 18th century
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0189
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- catalog number
- M-05337
- collector/donor number
- SAP 46
- catalog number
- 1991.0664.0189
- Object Name
- jar
- Other Terms
- jar; PHARMACEUTICAL CONTAINER
- Physical Description
- glass (overall material)
- paint (overall material)
- colorless (overall color)
- white (overall color)
- yellow (overall color)
- blue (overall color)
- red (overall color)
- black (overall color)
- blown (overall production method/technique)
- rococo (overall style)
- Measurements
- overall: 9.1 cm x 5.7 cm; 3 9/16 in x 2 1/4 in
- unspecified
- Germany
- 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
- Health & Medicine
- Art
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Pharmacy
- Record ID
- nmah_994156
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a8-8108-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
