OL LAVEND
date: label: date made
content: 18th century
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This bottle with its rounded belly, long neck, and round foot was used to store Oil of Lavender. The baked enamel decoration is similar to containers 1991.0664.0223 and 224. The label within the rounded cartouche reads <i>OL LAVEND</i>, and is painted in black. The perimeter of the cartouche is embellished with a red crown at the top above a wheel and sword. Directly below is a blue medallion with the initials “CR” for the shop Casper Ritter. The small black figure to the left of the blue medallion is a Moor, the symbol of the Moor Apothecary. Stylized acanthus leaves are painted yellow and white with red and blue flowers. The Deutches Apotheken Museum in Heidelberg, Germany, also has containers from the Moor Apothecary in Mainz.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The flowers and leaves of the Lavender plant were used as an aromatic to keep clothes and linens smelling sweet and to keep insects away. It was also used for headache when combined with other herbs. (Freeman, p. 39–40)
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Rhineland Palatinate, Mainz
topic: label: Subject
content: Pharmacy
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: European Apothecary
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content: Health & Medicine
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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: 1991.0664.0224
label: collector/donor number
content: SAP 81
label: accession number
content: 1991.0664
label: catalog number
content: M-05372
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0664.0224
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bottle
label: Object Name
content: bottle
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/4 in x 2 1/8 in; 10.795 cm x 5.3975 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10.5 cm x 5.5 cm; 4 1/8 in x 2 3/16 in