ELLEET E EVC ROS
ELLEET E EVC ROS
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- Description
- This albarello features a painted yellow oval baroque shield with a knight’s helmet at the top. The shield is framed by blue flowers. The interior of the shield features an image of a castle tower with three stars above, and the initialsG C in between the stars. Below the lower shoulder the jar is also marked ELLEET E ESVC ROS. The jar would have contained an electuary of rose, a paste composed of rose water and rose petals that was used as a salve.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- jar
- albarello
- date made
- 18th century
- Physical Description
- ceramic (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 20 cm x 11.5 cm; 7 7/8 in x 4 17/32 in
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0575
- catalog number
- M-05787
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- collector/donor number
- SAP 499
- catalog number
- 1991.0664.0575
- Credit Line
- Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
- subject
- Pharmacy
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- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- European Apothecary
- Art
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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