SPIR LAVEND
date: label: date made
content: 18th century
notes: label: Description
content: This blown and molded bottle has a Baroque-style blue and yellow cartouche with red and black lettering. The baked enamel label reads <i>SPIR LAVEND</i>. The flowers and leaves of the Lavender plant were used as an aromatic and to eliminate pests. Lavender was used to cure headaches, apoplexy and loss of speech.
label: Description
content: 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.
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
label: Related Publication
content: Margaret B. Freeman. Herbs for the Mediaeval Household
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: 1991.0664.0260
label: accession number
content: 1991.0664
label: catalog number
content: M-05409
label: collector/donor number
content: SAP 118
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0664.0260
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bottle
label: Other Terms
content: bottle; Pharmaceutical Container
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paint (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13.5 cm x 7.2 cm x 7.2 cm; 5 5/16 in x 2 13/16 in x 2 13/16 in