Albarello
date: label: date made
content: ca 1500
notes: label: Description
content: This albarello jar has a white glazed background. At the front of the container is a large oval cartouche with a cobalt blue and orange border. The back of the albarello has a floral motif. Yellow, green, and orange bands are at the neck and just above the base of the container. The interior of the cartouche has radiating lines and clusters of small dots in a triangular pattern. At the bottom of the cartouche is an orb with a cross resembling the alchemical symbol for powder. The letters P and B flank either side of the cross, they may have denoted several different medicines contained within the jar, identified the apothecary the jar belonged to, or served as the jar’s maker’s mark. When describing this container on page 65 of the <i>The Squibb Ancient Pharmacy Catalogue</i>, George Urdang felt the letters PB may refer to "Patres Benedictini" (Benedictine Fathers).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: attributed to
content: Italy: Tuscany, Florence
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: 1991.0664.0516
label: catalog number
content: M-05728
label: accession number
content: 1991.0664
label: collector/donor number
content: SAP 440
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0664.0516
objectType: label: Object Name
content: jar
label: Object Name
content: albarello
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ceramic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 24.3 cm x 12.2 cm; 9 9/16 in x 4 13/16 in