P LAUDANOP
P LAUDANOP
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- Description
- This tin glazed drug jar has a straight neck, flared foot, and a metal lid. The white background is decorated with a cobalt blue decoration of a basket of flowers flanked by two peacocks, swags of flowers, and an angel with a pendant cross.
- The center of the cartouche is marked “P LAUDANOP.” Administering laudanum—an opium solution—for pain relief has been practiced for centuries. Differing recipes call for varying amounts of opium.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- jar
- jar
- Other Terms
- jar; Pharmaceutical Container
- date made
- 18th century
- place made
- Netherlands
- Physical Description
- iron (overall material)
- ceramic (overall material)
- tin (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 13.5 cm x 9 cm; 5 5/16 in x 3 17/32 in
- overall: 5 3/8 in x 3 3/8 in; 13.6525 cm x 8.5725 cm
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0830
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- catalog number
- M-06042
- collector/donor number
- SAP 754
- catalog number
- 1991.0664.0830.01
- 1991.0664.0830.02
- 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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