TROCIS ALANDALL
date: label: date made
content: ca 1600
label: Date made
content: 1675 - 1699
notes: label: Description
content: This squat–shaped drug jar has a baluster-shaped body and a stepped flared foot. A yellow shield depicts a lion balanced on one hind leg, holding an orb with its two front paws. The shield is surrounded by an elaborate blue floral motif on a white glazed background with yellow rope bands at the neck and the rim of the foot.
label: Description
content: A yellow and blue striped escroll is inscribed in black <i>TROCIS ALANDALL</i>” Trochiscus Alandall, also known as Troches of Alhandal, were lozenges made from the <i>citrullus colocynthis</i> plant. Colocynthis lozenges would have been used as a cathartic.
label: Description
content: The jar was incorporated into the Squibb Ancient Pharmacy Collection when it was purchased at auction in 1935 from the American Art Association Anderson Galleries in New York City.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: attributed to
content: Italy: Emilia-Romagna, Faenza
topic: label: Subject
content: Pharmacy
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: European Apothecary
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content: Art
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Drey, Rudolf E.A.. Apothecary Jars
label: Related Publication
content: Urdang, George and Ferdinand William Nitardy. The Squibb Ancient Pharmacy: A Catalogue of the Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0664.0504
label: accession number
content: 1991.0664
label: catalog number
content: M-05716
label: collector/donor number
content: SAP 428
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0664.0504
objectType: label: Object Name
content: jar
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ceramic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12.5 cm x 11.5 cm; 4 29/32 in x 4 17/32 in