LIMAT
- Description
- This urn-shaped glass wide mouthed jar has a flat collar and a round foot. The white baked enamel cartouche is framed by blue stylized vines and capped with a yellow crown it is marked LIMAT above the alchemical symbol for iron and PP, the abbreviation for prepared. This jar is pictured on page 18 in the Squibb Ancient Pharmacy Catalogue.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 17th-18th century
- unspecified
- Germany
- Physical Description
- glass (overall material)
- paint, enamel (overall material)
- white (overall color)
- blue (overall color)
- black (overall color)
- yellow (overall color)
- red (overall color)
- blown (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- overall: 9.3 cm x 6.1 cm; 3 11/16 in x 2 3/8 in
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0153
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- catalog number
- M-05301
- 1991.0664.0153
- collector/donor number
- SAP 10
- Credit Line
- Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
- subject
- Pharmacy
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- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Art
- Health & Medicine
- European Apothecary
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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