Albarello
Albarello
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- Description
- This tin–glazed polychrome albarello is decorated with green wavy ribbons and a blue, green, yellow, and ochre wreaths framing blue and ochre C–scrolls on a white background. A blue and yellow rectangle band is without an inscription.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- jar
- albarello
- date made
- 1624
- Date made
- 1624
- place made
- Italy
- Italy: Tuscany, Siena
- Physical Description
- ceramic (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 22.5 cm x 13.5 cm; 8 27/32 in x 5 5/16 in
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0536
- catalog number
- M-05748
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- collector/donor number
- SAP 460
- catalog number
- 1991.0664.0536
- 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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