Mortar
Mortar
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- Description
- Gothic-style bronze mortar with flared mouth and four vertical ribs in a "tears" pattern extending out from just below the neck to the bottom of the mortar. Urdang attributes this mortar to 15th century France.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- mortar
- mortar
- Other Terms
- mortar; MANUFACTURING & DISPENSING EQUIP.
- Physical Description
- bronze (overall material)
- gothic (overall style)
- Measurements
- overall: 8.4 cm x 10.6 cm; 3 5/16 in x 4 3/16 in
- overall: 3 1/4 in x 4 3/8 in; 8.255 cm x 11.1125 cm
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0096
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- catalog number
- M-05649
- collector/donor number
- SAP 361
- 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
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