Mortar
date: label: date made
content: 1711
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Flared mouth and decorative bands of fanciful flora and fauna. Urdang believed this mortar to be of Flemish origin. However Wittop Koning the prolific historian of pharmaceutical history disagreed. On two separate occasions almost thirty years apart Wittop Koning visited the museum and afterwards wrote that mortar SAP 390, was Dutch and attributed to a "bell founder in Amsterdam. See WK Ned. vijzels".
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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: 1991.0664.0125
label: accession number
content: 1991.0664
label: catalog number
content: M-05678
label: collector/donor number
content: SAP 390
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Mortar
label: Other Terms
content: Mortar; MANUFACTURING & DISPENSING EQUIP.
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: molded (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 15.8 cm x 20.5 cm; 6 1/4 in x 8 1/16 in