Apothecary Jar, Albarello
date: label: date made
content: ca 1500
notes: label: Description
content: This container has two twisted green and white rope-style handles and is decorated with two portraits, one of a man and one of a woman at opposite sides of the container flanked by bands of blue, yellow and green cross hatching. Blue and yellow circular bands appear at the neck and just below the portraits. The container is a little lopsided.
label: Description
content: George Urdang pharmaceutical historian attributes this container to either Siena or Castel Durante. In <i>Italian Renaissance Maiolica</i>, art historian Wendy M. Watson, notes in her that albarelli with "two handled drug jars, and decorated in the severe-style" were produced in the Tuscan region. However, exact attribution is very difficult.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Medicine
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
label: Related Publication
content: Watson, Wendy M.. Italian Renaissance Maiolica: from the Willaim A. Clark 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: 1991.0664.0544
label: accession number
content: 1991.0664
label: catalog number
content: M-05756
label: collector/donor number
content: SAP 468
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0664.0544
objectType: label: Object Name
content: jar
label: Object Name
content: jar
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ceramic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 22.8 cm x 22.4 cm x 12.5 cm; 9 in x 8 13/16 in x 4 15/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 in x 10 1/8 in x 5 1/4 in; 22.86 cm x 25.7175 cm x 13.335 cm