TROCIS DI MIRRA
TROCIS DI MIRRA
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- Description
- This squat–shaped drug jar has a baluster body and a stepped flared foot. A yellow shield depicts a lion balanced on one hind leg, holding an orb with its two front paws. The shield is surrounded by an elaborate blue floral motif on a white glazed background with yellow rope bands at the neck and the rim of the foot.
- A yellow and blue striped escroll is inscribed in black TROCIS DI MIRRA. The jar would have contained Trochis di Mirra, or myrrh lozenges. Myrrh was used as a tonic, diaphoretic, expectorant, and antiseptic. The jar was incorporated into the Squibb Ancient Pharmacy Collection when it was purchased at auction in 1935 from the American Art Association Anderson Galleries in New York City.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- jar
- date made
- ca 1600
- Date made
- 1675 - 1699
- attributed to
- Italy: Emilia-Romagna, Faenza
- Physical Description
- ceramic (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 12.5 cm x 11.5 cm; 4 29/32 in x 4 17/32 in
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0506
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- catalog number
- M-05718
- collector/donor number
- SAP 430
- catalog number
- 1991.0664.0506
- 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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