This is a small wide-mouthed tin-glazed whitish gray drug jar with a flared lip. The jar is decorated with a circular vine of blue leaves and flowers and is marked “EXTR CENTAUR MIN.” The buds, leaves and stems of the plant Centaurium minus are used in the preparation of Extract of Centaurium Minus. The extract was used as as a remedy for hypertension, dyspepsia, loss of appetite, kidney stones, anxiety and insomnia.
Drug jars 1991.0664.0724–.0728 are attributed to 18th-century Nuremberg. George Urdang bases this attribution to the blue wreath and the potter’s mark at the bottom of the jars.