CONDIT BARDAN RAD
date: label: date made
content: 18th century
notes: label: Description
content: This whitish gray tin-glazed drug jar has a wide mouth. It is decorated with vines of blue flowers and leaves which create a circular medallion. The interior of the medallion is marked, “CONDIT BARDAN RAD.” The jar would have contained the roots of the bardana plant, a thistle belonging to the genus <i>Arctium</i>. According to George Urdang, the potter’s mark attributes the container to the city of Nuremberg.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Bavaria, Nuremberg
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: 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: 1991.0664.0728
label: accession number
content: 1991.0664
label: catalog number
content: M-05940
label: collector/donor number
content: SAP 652
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0664.0728
objectType: label: Object Name
content: jar
label: Object Name
content: jar
label: Other Terms
content: jar; Pharmaceutical Container
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ceramic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 cm x 10 cm; 5 1/8 in x 3 15/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 in x 3 5/8 in; 12.7 cm x 9.2075 cm