jar
jar
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- Description
- This urn-shaped drug jar with a grayish-white glaze, a straight neck and a round domed foot. A rectangular label is formed by thin yellow and brown stripes and topped by four C-scrolls forming a blue cartouche with a yellow center. The rectangle creates a frame for the containers inscription. The outer frame is surrounded at the top and bottom by green and brown vines and yellow swags of beads.
- However in a 1954 letter from Associate Curator George Griffenhagen in the Division of Medicine to George Urdang the jars numbered Squibb Ancient Pharmacy a renowned Spanish historian of Medicine, G. Folch Jou, of 483-491 appear to be of Catalonian-Aragonese origin".
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Jar
- Date made
- 18th Century
- Physical Description
- ceramic (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 22.4 cm x 12 cm; 8 13/16 in x 4 3/4 in
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0566
- collector/donor number
- SAP 490
- catalog number
- M-05778
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- Credit Line
- Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
- subject
- Pharmacy
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- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Art
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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