OL LAVEND
- Description (Brief)
- 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 "OL LAVEND" 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,” standing 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.
- 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)
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- bottle
- date made
- 18th century
- Physical Description
- glass (overall material)
- paint (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 10.5 cm x 5.5 cm; 4 1/8 in x 2 3/16 in
- place made
- Deutschland: Rheinland-Pfalz, Mainz
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0224
- collector/donor number
- SAP 81
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- catalog number
- M-05372
- 1991.0664.0224
- subject
- Art
- Pharmacy
- Religion
- European Apothecary
- Health & Medicine
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- European Apothecary
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
- Credit Line
- Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
- Related Publication
- Urdang, George and Ferdinand William Nitardy. The Squibb Ancient Pharmacy: A Catalogue of the Collection
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