Mortar
notes: label: Description
content: Cast bronze mortar with flaring mouth. The band along the exterior of the mouth has stylized flowers over raised bands. Eight heavy buttressed ribs alternate between fluer-de-lis and human faces.
label: Description
content: Urdang catalogued this mortar as 16th century Italian. However, in a letter dated 7 October 1983, Wittop Koning believed this artifact to be of Spanish origin.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: unspecified
content: Italy
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: 1991.0664.0108
label: accession number
content: 1991.0664
label: catalog number
content: M-05661
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0664.0108.01
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0664.0108.02
label: collector/donor number
content: SAP 373
label: catalog number
content: M-05661.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: mortar
label: Other Terms
content: Mortar; Mortar and Pestle; MANUFACTURING & DISPENSING EQUIP.
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: bronze (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cast (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10.3 cm x 5.8 cm; 4 1/16 in x 2 5/16 in