jar
date: label: Date made
content: 18th Century
notes: label: Description
content: This urn-shaped drug jar with a grayish-white glaze, a straight neck and a round domed foot. A rectangular label is formed by thin yellow and brown stripes and topped by four C-scrolls forming a blue cartouche with a yellow center. The rectangle creates a frame for the containers inscription. The outer frame is surrounded at the top and bottom by green and brown vines and yellow swags of beads.
label: Description
content: However in a 1954 letter from Associate Curator George Griffenhagen in the Division of Medicine to George Urdang the jars numbered Squibb Ancient Pharmacy a renowned Spanish historian of Medicine, G. Folch Jou, of <i>483-491 appear to be of Catalonian-Aragonese origin"</i>.
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: Art
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: 1991.0664.0566
label: collector/donor number
content: SAP 490
label: catalog number
content: M-05778
label: accession number
content: 1991.0664
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Jar
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ceramic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 22.4 cm x 12 cm; 8 13/16 in x 4 3/4 in