Drug Jar
date: label: date made
content: 17th century
notes: label: Description
content: This cylindrical drug jar tapers at the neck and base, and has a grayish tin glaze background decorated with deep blue striped patterns. Geometric decoration consists of compartmentalized vertical designs between four horizontal lines of blue at both shoulders. In the <i>Squibb Ancient Pharmacy Catalogue</i> George Urdang attributes this jar to Creussen, a town in Bavaria in the first half of the 17th century. However, after seeing the collection in 1983, pharmaceutical historian Wolfgang Hagen Hein wrote about new research that placed the origin of similar jars to Arnstadt, a small town in the principality of Thuringia.
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: 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: 1991.0664.0714
label: accession number
content: 1991.0664
label: catalog number
content: M-05926
label: collector/donor number
content: SAP 638
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0664.0714
objectType: label: Object Name
content: jar
label: Object Name
content: jar
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ceramic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 19 cm x 10.5 cm; 7 15/32 in x 4 1/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 1/2 in x 4 1/4 in; 19.05 cm x 10.795 cm