Mortar
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This mortar has a flared mouth and three rows of highly decorative bands of flora, fauna, putti circle the waist and two dolphin handles are applied to the body.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Urdang and Nitardy wrote that this mortar was of Italian origin. However, in a letter to George Urdang dated 13 April 1954, Associate Curator of the Division of Medicine, George Griffenhagen writes that Dutch Scholar Professor Dirk Arnold Wittop Koning believes this mortar to be of Dutch origin. Whittop Koning reiterates his belief in this artifacts Dutch origins almost thirty years later in a letter to Museum Specialist Michael Harris.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Pharmacy
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Art
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: 1991.0664.0114
label: accession number
content: 1991.0664
label: catalog number
content: M-05667
label: collector/donor number
content: SAP 379
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Mortar
label: Other Terms
content: Mortar; MANUFACTURING & DISPENSING EQUIP.
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: molded (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13.6 cm x 12.7 cm; 5 3/8 in x 5 in