Drug Jar
date: label: date made
content: 18th century
notes: label: Description
content: This ovoid drug jar has a grayish white glazed background. In the center of the jar is a blue wreath circling a brown double-headed eagle. Above the bird's heads is a brown crown and scepter with two blue hands extending downwards from the bottom of the crown. An oval shield in the center of the eagle has a blue intersecting key and feather. The foot of the bird on the left clutches a sword. Above the wreath is a blue escrol which has been left blank. An illegible paper label is on the back of the jar. George Urdang attributes this jar to 18th-century Nuremberg and the St. Emeran Episcopal Court Pharmacy.
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: 1991.0664.0723
label: accession number
content: 1991.0664
label: catalog number
content: M-05935
label: collector/donor number
content: SAP 647
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0664.0723
objectType: label: Object Name
content: jar
label: Object Name
content: jar
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ceramic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 20.5 cm x 14 cm; 8 1/16 in x 5 1/2 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/8 in x 5 3/4 in; 20.6375 cm x 14.605 cm