Mortar
Mortar
- Description
- This bronze mortar has a flared rim, beaker-shaped body with six vertical gothic style ribs and a twisted applied handle. A hand written note placed inside mortar reads, "Probably Spanish/ 16th c./ or french". Urdang catalogued this mortar as Germanic, early 15th century.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- unspecified
- Germany
- Physical Description
- bronze (overall material)
- gothic (overall style)
- Measurements
- overall: 10.2 cm x 13 cm x 12.3 cm; 4 in x 5 1/8 in x 4 13/16 in
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0088
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- catalog number
- M-05641
- collector/donor number
- SAP 353
- Credit Line
- Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
- subject
- Pharmacy
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- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Art
- European Apothecary
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
