Drug Jar
date: label: date made
content: 18th century
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This blue and white albarello-shaped drug jar has two bands of blue arches or false gadroons. On the upper shoulder is a portrait of an African man in the center of the top border. The borders are decorated with blue arches or false gadroons. In <i>Apothecary Jars</i> by Rudolf Drey, a similar jar to 1991.0664.0648 through 1991.0664.0664, is illustrated, and attributed to Savona, a seaport town in northern Italy, which has a similar blue and manganese pallet.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Italy: Liguria, Savona
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: 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: 1991.0664.0660
label: accession number
content: 1991.0664
label: collector/donor number
content: SAP 584
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0664.0660
objectType: label: Object Name
content: jar
label: Other Terms
content: jar; Pharmaceutical Container
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ceramic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 18.2 cm x 13 cm; 7 5/32 in x 5 1/8 in