SYP CHAMOM
date: label: Date made
content: 1700 - 1799
notes: label: Description
content: This teapot-shaped majolica syrup jar has a tin lid and a white tin glazed background with yellow, blue and black decorative motifs including the unusual addition of the staff of Asclepius, a familiar symbol of the medical profession. A blue glazed rectangle in the center of the container is marked “SYP CHAMOM” in the cold paint technique. The jar would have contained the syrup of chamomile, used as a tonic, diaphoretic, antiseptic, digestive, and aperients a mild laxative. Urdang attributes the jar to Offenbach in the Rhine River Valley of Germany.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany
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: 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: 1991.0664.0735
label: catalog number
content: M-05947
label: accession number
content: 1991.0664
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0664.00735
label: collector/donor number
content: 659
objectType: label: Object Name
content: jar
label: Object Name
content: syrup jar
label: Other Terms
content: Pharmaceutical Container
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ceramic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tin (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 3/4 in x 7 in x 5 in; 24.765 cm x 17.78 cm x 12.7 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 17 cm x 18.5 cm x 9.8 cm; 6 11/16 in x 7 9/32 in x 3 27/32 in