Apothecary Jar, CROC MART ANT ST
Apothecary Jar, CROC MART ANT ST
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- Description
- This blown and molded jar has a Baroque-style blue and yellow cartouche with red and black lettering. The baked enamel label marked in red and black CROC MART ANT ST.
- The generic blue and yellow decoration with it's stylized "crown above the cartouche is similar to glass drug jars in the collection of the Deutsche Apotheken-Museum in Heidelberg.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- jar
- Other Terms
- jar; Pharmaceutical Container
- date made
- 18th century
- Physical Description
- paint (overall material)
- glass (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 10.5 cm x 7.2 cm x 7 cm; 4 1/8 in x 2 13/16 in x 2 3/4 in
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0259
- catalog number
- M-05408
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- collector/donor number
- SAP 117
- 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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