P LAUDANOP
date: label: date made
content: 18th century
notes: label: Description
content: This tin glazed drug jar has a straight neck, flared foot, and a metal lid. The white background is decorated with a cobalt blue decoration of a basket of flowers flanked by two peacocks, swags of flowers, and an angel with a pendant cross.
label: Description
content: The center of the cartouche is marked “P LAUDANOP.” Administering laudanum—an opium solution—for pain relief has been practiced for centuries. Differing recipes call for varying amounts of opium.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Netherlands
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: Hill, C.R. and R.E.A. Drey. Drug 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: 1991.0664.0830
label: accession number
content: 1991.0664
label: catalog number
content: M-06042
label: collector/donor number
content: SAP 754
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0664.0830.01
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0664.0830.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: jar
label: Object Name
content: jar
label: Other Terms
content: jar; Pharmaceutical Container
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ceramic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tin (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13.5 cm x 9 cm; 5 5/16 in x 3 17/32 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 3/8 in x 3 3/8 in; 13.6525 cm x 8.5725 cm