FE: URTIC: ROM
date: label: date made
content: 1723-1789
name: label: maker
content: Pennis, Johannis
notes: label: Description
content: This albarello has a white glazed background with an elaborate cobalt blue cartouche. A basket of fruit sits atop the cartouche, flanked by two peacocks. Also included in the design are scrolls, vines, tassels, and the face of an angel with a pendant cross. The center of the cartouche is marked “C FE: URTIC: ROM.” Urticaria is a skin rash that the medication in this jar was used to treat.
label: Description
content: The bottom of the glazed base bares a maker’s mark, a small dot above the letter P. This is the mark of the Pennis family who owned two ceramic factories in the Netherlands from about 1723 to 1789. In addition to apothecary jars they made small utilitarian objects for the home. The family included:
label: Description
content: Pennis, Johannes, Sr. d. 1774
label: Description
content: Pennis, Anthoney d. 1770
label: Description
content: Pennis, Johannes, Jr. d. before 1789
label: Description
content: The family owned two factories, the De Porceleyne Schotel from 1723 to 1763 and the De Twee Scheepjes (the two little ships) from 1750 until around 1789.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Netherlands
topic: label: Subject
content: Pharmacy
setName: label: See more items in
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: Crellin, J.K.. Medical Ceramics in the Wellcome Collection
label: Related Publication
content: Potten Kijken & pillen draaien in de oude apotheek
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
label: Related Publication
content: C.H. de Jonge. Delft Ceramics
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: 1991.0664.0827
label: catalog number
content: M-06039
label: accession number
content: 1991.0664
label: collector/donor number
content: SAP 751
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0664.0827
objectType: label: Object Name
content: jar
label: Object Name
content: jar
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ceramic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 20.5 cm x 13 cm; 8 1/16 in x 5 1/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/8 in x 4 3/4 in; 20.6375 cm x 12.065 cm