Apothecary Jar, RESIN L SANC
Apothecary Jar, RESIN L SANC
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- Description
- This albarello-shaped, blown green glass drug jar has a paper cover securred to its neck with string. The jar's 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 losses. The decoration appears as an upside down heart outlined in red with a stylized flower at the top. The label is marked in black and red RESIN/L SANCT. The paper cover is marked in ink, but the writing is very faint but appears to be "Refina lignla lancti factilia."
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- jar
- jar
- Other Terms
- jar; Pharmaceutical Container
- date made
- 17th century
- Physical Description
- glass (overall material)
- paint (overall material)
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 13.5 cm x 9 cm; 5 5/16 in x 3 9/16 in
- overall: 5 1/2 in x 3 3/8 in; 13.97 cm x 8.5725 cm
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0347
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- catalog number
- M-05496
- collector/donor number
- SAP 208
- catalog number
- 1991.0664.0347
- Credit Line
- Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
- subject
- Medicine
- Pharmacy
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- European Apothecary
- Art
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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