ESS PINI
ESS PINI
- Description
- This blown and molded bottle is marked ESS PINI, and would have contained the Essence of Pine. Pini would have referred to a variety of different evergreen pine trees whose sap or distilled leaves would have been used as a diuretic, diaphoretic, detergent, or cathartic.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 18th century
- Physical Description
- glass (overall material)
- paint (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 13.2 cm x 7.1 cm x 6.8 cm; 5 3/16 in x 2 13/16 in x 2 11/16 in
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0311
- catalog number
- M-05460
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- collector/donor number
- SAP 169
- catalog number
- 1991.0664.0311
- 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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