Florentine Bottle
- Description
- This is a free-blown green glass container with a long neck, a round squat body and an applied curved spout. Florentine bottles were used for the distillation of flower oils. According to Robert J. Forbes in his book, The Short History of the Art of Distillation, page 260, the term Florentine Bottle goes back no further than the mid-19th century.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 17th-18th century
- Physical Description
- glass (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 12.8 cm x 11 cm x 8.5 cm; 5 1/32 in x 4 11/32 in x 3 11/32 in
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0928
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- catalog number
- M-06324
- 1991.0664.0928
- Credit Line
- Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
- subject
- Pharmacy
- Chemistry
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- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Art
- Health & Medicine
- European Apothecary
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
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