CONDIT BARDAN RAD
CONDIT BARDAN RAD
- Description
- This whitish gray tin-glazed drug jar has a wide mouth. It is decorated with vines of blue flowers and leaves which create a circular medallion. The interior of the medallion is marked, “CONDIT BARDAN RAD.” The jar would have contained the roots of the bardana plant, a thistle belonging to the genus Arctium. According to George Urdang, the potter’s mark attributes the container to the city of Nuremberg.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 18th century
- place made
- Deutschland: Bayern, Nuremberg
- Physical Description
- ceramic (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 13 cm x 10 cm; 5 1/8 in x 3 15/16 in
- overall: 5 in x 3 5/8 in; 12.7 cm x 9.2075 cm
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0728
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- catalog number
- M-05940
- collector/donor number
- SAP 652
- catalog number
- 1991.0664.0728
- 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
