PECTORAL B W
date: label: date made
content: 18th century
notes: label: Description
content: This wide mouth jar has a flared collar and an applied circular foot. The clear glass is decorated with a baked enamel cartouche. A white shield on a blue background is framed by a yellow C-scroll design and capped by a crown. Urdang attributes this jar to the Court Pharmacy of Pillnitz, which today is a city quarter in eastern Dresden, Germany. It is marked <i>PECTORAL B W</i> with red initial letters and the alchemical symbol for powder. A pectoral was a poultice or ointment used in the treatment of upper-respiratory ailments.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: unspecified
content: Germany
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: Health & Medicine
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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: 1991.0664.0189
label: accession number
content: 1991.0664
label: catalog number
content: M-05337
label: collector/donor number
content: SAP 46
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0664.0189
objectType: label: Object Name
content: jar
label: Other Terms
content: jar; PHARMACEUTICAL CONTAINER
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: colorless (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: white (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: yellow (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: blue (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: red (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: blown (overall production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: rococo (overall style)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9.1 cm x 5.7 cm; 3 9/16 in x 2 1/4 in