BENEDITTA H
date: label: date made
content: ca 1700
notes: label: Description
content: The lower shoulder of this drug jar in inscribed <i>BENEDITTA H.</i> The jar would have contained Benedicts’s herb, or <i>Geum urbanum</i>. The herb and its roots were used as a remedy for liver disease and stomach ailments.
label: Description
content: The jar has a white background decorated with blue vines. Its center contains a coat of arms framed by a yellow shield and topped by a knight’s helmet. The escutcheon has a blue field, with three stars on a yellow band running diagonally across the upper quarter of the shield. The bottom of the shield features a yellow rooster perches on a three-pronged brown base. The initials <i>P.</i> and <i>G.</i> flank either side of the shield. This jar belongs to a series of containers 1991.0664.0525 through 1991.0664.0529 which have been attributed to eighteenth century Savona.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Italy
topic: label: Subject
content: Pharmacy
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: European Apothecary
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content: Art
publisher: 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: 1991.0664.0527
label: accession number
content: 1991.0664
label: collector/donor number
content: SAP 451
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0664.0527
objectType: label: Object Name
content: jar
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ceramic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 17.6 cm x 11.2 cm; 6 15/16 in x 4 13/32 in