Ell di Sebesten
date: label: date made
content: ca 1500
label: Date made
content: 1500 - 1550
notes: label: Description
content: This blue monochrome albarello is decorated with cobalt blue vines and leaves. The escroll in the center of the container is marked in gothic script that reads <i>Ell di Sebesten.</i> Albarelli with wide mouths held dry bulk materia medica. Inscriptions of the jar's contents begin to appear about 1450. This jar would have contained Sebestena, the sweet plum fruit from the <i>Cordia myxa</i> tree that was used to soothe the throat.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Italy: Emilia-Romagna, Faenza
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: 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: 1991.0664.0491
label: accession number
content: 1991.0664
label: catalog number
content: M-05703
label: collector/donor number
content: SAP 415
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0664.0491
objectType: label: Object Name
content: jar
label: Object Name
content: albarello
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ceramic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 17.3 cm x 12 cm; 6 13/16 in x 4 23/32 in