AQ SAPHIREA
date: label: date made
content: 18th century
notes: label: Description
content: This baked enamel label is marked in red and black <i>AQ SAPHIREA</i>. The European Apothecary Collection contains dozens of drug jars with this same embellishment. The generic blue and yellow decoration with its stylized crown above the cartouche is similar to glass drug jars in the collection of the Deutsche Apotheken Museum in Heidelberg, Germany.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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: Health & Medicine
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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: 1991.0664.0239
label: accession number
content: 1991.0664
label: catalog number
content: M-05387
label: collector/donor number
content: SAP 96
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0664.0239.01
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0664.0239.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bottle
label: Other Terms
content: bottle; PHARMACEUTICAL CONTAINER
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 18 cm x 7.5 cm x 7.5 cm; 7 1/16 in x 2 15/16 in x 2 15/16 in