FLOR AERUG
FLOR AERUG
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- Description
- This dark green blown glass jar has a wide mouth to accommodate dried plant material. The label is applied with the cold paint method. Unlike the enamel labels, there is no baking involved. Therefore it is not unusual to find the label has been badly scratched and suffered severe paint loss.
- The decoration appears as an upside–down heart outlined in red with a stylized flower at the top. The label is marked in red and black FLOR AERUG. This jar would have contained Aerugo, which is Latin for “rust of copper” or copper acetate that would have been used as an emetic or an escharotic (a salve or substance that causes tissue to die and fall away).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- jar
- date made
- 17th century
- Physical Description
- glass (overall material)
- paint (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 13 cm x 9.5 cm; 5 1/8 in x 3 3/4 in
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0350
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- catalog number
- M-05499
- collector/donor number
- SAP 211
- catalog number
- 1991.0664.0350
- 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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