DIAGR
- Description
- This glass urn-shaped widemouthed jar, with its oval cartouche of baked white enamel and blue stylized vines and yellow crown is typical of German pharmaceutical containers of the 17th and 18th centuries. This jar has a flat collar and a round foot. The label is marked "DIAGR" above the alchemical symbol for sulphur. This jar is pictured on page 18 in the Squibb Ancient Pharmacy Catalogue.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- jar
- date made
- 17th-18th century
- Physical Description
- glass (overall material)
- paint, enamel (overall material)
- colorless (overall color)
- white (overall color)
- blue (overall color)
- black (overall color)
- yellow (overall color)
- red (overall color)
- blown (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- overall: 9 cm x 6 cm; 3 9/16 in x 2 3/8 in
- unspecified
- Germany
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0152
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- catalog number
- M-05300
- 1991.0664.0152
- collector/donor number
- SAP 9
- subject
- Art
- Pharmacy
- 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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