Drug Jar
date: label: date made
content: 18th century
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This albarello-shaped drug jar is decorated with blue arches or false gadroons. In <I>Apothecary Jars</i> by Rudolf Drey, a similar jar to 1991.0664.0648 through 1991.0664.0664, is illustrated, and attributed to Savona, a seaport town in northern Italy, and has a similar blue and manganese pallet. Although similar this container has oval gold and brown medallions painted in the cold technique inside each arch. The waist of the albarello has been left blank allowing the apothecary to reuse the container for different medications and write in the appropriate label.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Italy: Liguria, Savona
topic: label: Subject
content: Pharmacy
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: European Apothecary
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content: Art
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Drey, Rudolf E.A.. Apothecary Jars
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: 1991.0664.0658
label: accession number
content: 1991.0664
label: collector/donor number
content: SAP 582
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0664.0658
objectType: label: Object Name
content: jar
label: Other Terms
content: jar; Pharmaceutical Container
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ceramic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 18 cm x 12.5 cm; 7 1/16 in x 4 15/16 in