Mortar
Mortar
- Description
- Cast short squat mortar with a flared rim decorated with dots. The body of the mortar has full length figures separated by fish, busts, fleur-de-lis, and flowers.
- Urdang attributes the mortar to 16th century France and the bust to the French King Henry IV.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- molded (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- overall: 9.5 cm x 13.6 cm; 3 3/4 in x 5 3/8 in
- overall: 3 5/8 in x 5 3/8 in; 9.2075 cm x 13.6525 cm
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0111
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- catalog number
- M-05664
- collector/donor number
- SAP 376
- catalog number
- 1991.0664.0111
- Credit Line
- Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
- subject
- Pharmacy
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- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Religion
- Art
- European Apothecary
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
