A: HYSSOPI
notes: label: Description
content: This bulbous drug jar has a long neck and flared foot. The white tin glazed background is decorated with a cobalt blue cartouche created by C scrolls, swags, and the head of an angel. Atop the cartouche are two angels flanking the mark, “IHS” with a cross above the H and three nails below.
label: Description
content: The center of the cartouche is marked, “A: HYSSOPI:.” Hyssop is a plant native to the Mediterranean and is used as an expectorant, and a stimulant, and for pulmonary disorders. Hyssop was often administered as an infusion or tea.
label: Description
content: Apothecary jars were produced in many towns and cities throughout the Netherlands. The Dutch containers in the Bristol Myers Squibb Collection are decorated with cobalt blue over a white tin glaze. Among the most common decorative motifs found on Dutch apothecary jars are peacocks, stags and angels.
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: Wittop Koning, D.A.. Delftse Apothekers Potten
label: Related Publication
content: Urdang, George and Ferdinand William Nitardy. The Squibb Ancient Pharmacy: A Catalogue of the Collection
label: Related Publication
content: Pharmacy In History
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: 1991.0664.0835
label: accession number
content: 1991.0664
label: catalog number
content: M-06047
label: collector/donor number
content: SAP 759
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0664.0835
objectType: label: Object Name
content: jar
label: Object Name
content: jar
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ceramic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 26 cm x 15 cm; 10 1/4 in x 5 29/32 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 1/8 in x 5 7/8 in; 25.7175 cm x 14.9225 cm