ELECTVARIUM DUCIS
date: label: Date made
content: 1700 - 1799
notes: label: Description
content: This is a blue, yellow, and green tin–glazed waisted drug jar. The jar is decorated with a female mythological figure with a swan in one hand and flowers in the other, set against a landscape. On either side of the figure are vertical bands of foliage. An escrol above the figure is marked “ELECTVARIUM DUCIS.” The jar would have contained an electuary (a medicine mixed with honey into a paste) formulated for the Duke of Savoy. An electuary was taken orally, and this preparation was used to relieve flatulence and indigestion.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Italy
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: 1991.0664.0647
label: catalog number
content: M-05859
label: accession number
content: 1991.0664
label: collector/donor number
content: SAP 571
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0664.0647
objectType: label: Object Name
content: jar
label: Object Name
content: jar, albarello
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ceramic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 28.5 cm x 16.6 cm; 11 7/32 in x 6 17/32 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 1/2 in x 6 1/8 in; 29.21 cm x 15.5575 cm