TROCIS DI MIRRA
date: label: date made
content: ca 1600
label: Date made
content: 1675 - 1699
notes: label: Description
content: This squat–shaped drug jar has a baluster body and a stepped flared foot. A yellow shield depicts a lion balanced on one hind leg, holding an orb with its two front paws. The shield is surrounded by an elaborate blue floral motif on a white glazed background with yellow rope bands at the neck and the rim of the foot.
label: Description
content: A yellow and blue striped escroll is inscribed in black <i>TROCIS DI MIRRA.</i> The jar would have contained Trochis di Mirra, or myrrh lozenges. Myrrh was used as a tonic, diaphoretic, expectorant, and antiseptic. The jar was incorporated into the Squibb Ancient Pharmacy Collection when it was purchased at auction in 1935 from the American Art Association Anderson Galleries in New York City.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: attributed to
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: 1991.0664.0506
label: accession number
content: 1991.0664
label: catalog number
content: M-05718
label: collector/donor number
content: SAP 430
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0664.0506
objectType: label: Object Name
content: jar
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ceramic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12.5 cm x 11.5 cm; 4 29/32 in x 4 17/32 in