Mortar
Mortar
- Description
- Cast bronze mortar with bell-shaped mouth and small single semi-circular applied handle with a larger ring. The mortar has a cast cross and six vertical ribs extending from the neck to the end of the waist. It appears the mortar was painted black at one time. Urdang attributes this mortar to 16th century Spain.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- unspecified
- Spain
- Physical Description
- bronze (overall material)
- paint (overall material)
- gothic (overall style)
- Measurements
- overall: 12.4 cm x 15.6 cm; 4 7/8 in x 6 1/8 in
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0102
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- catalog number
- M-05655
- collector/donor number
- SAP 367
- Credit Line
- Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
- subject
- Pharmacy
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Art
- European Apothecary
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
