BOLUS RUBER
date: label: date made
content: 1790-1810
label: Date made
content: 1775 - 1799
notes: label: Description
content: This majolica drug jar is decorated with a painted garland of blue and purple flowers. Green leaves create an oval medallion outlined in yellow and black. The interior of the garland is marked, “BOLUS RUBER” in black, and the bottom of the jar is marked “HN.” A bolus is a large pill, and ruber would likely refer to the pill’s red color.
label: Description
content: Historian George Urdang attributes the containers 1991.0664.0760 through 1991.0664.0825 to Hanau in the late 18th century, based on the floral design surrounding the medallion and the initials HN on the bottom of many of the jars in the series. However, in a letter dated August 1983, the pharmaceutical history scholar Wolfgang Hagen Hein states that he believes the unmarked containers and those marked FH were made in Florsheim in the German state of Hesse.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Hesse, Hanau
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: 1991.0664.0798
label: catalog number
content: M-06010
label: accession number
content: 1991.0664
label: collector/donor number
content: SAP 722
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0664.0798
objectType: label: Object Name
content: jar
label: Object Name
content: jar
label: Other Terms
content: jar; Pharmaceutical Container
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ceramic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 16.2 cm x 11.3 cm; 6 3/8 in x 4 7/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 1/2 in x 4 1/4 in; 16.51 cm x 10.795 cm