CROC. ANTIM.
CROC. ANTIM.
- Description
- This blown wide mouth glass jar has a flared collar, and an applied round foot. A baked enamel cartouche decorates the clear glass, with a white shield framed by blue stylized leaves and yellow ribbon, capped by a crown which is typical of German pharmaceutical containers of the 17th and 18th century's. It is marked CROC. ANTIM. Crocus Antimonii was used in the preparation of other antimony salts.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 18th century
- unspecified
- Germany
- Physical Description
- glass (overall material)
- paint (overall material)
- colorless (overall color)
- white (overall color)
- blue (overall color)
- black (overall color)
- red (overall color)
- yellow (overall color)
- blown (overall production method/technique)
- rococo (overall style)
- Measurements
- overall: 8.6 cm x 6.3 cm; 3 3/8 in x 2 1/2 in
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0183
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- catalog number
- M-05331
- 1991.0664.0183
- collector/donor number
- SAP 40
- Credit Line
- Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
- subject
- Pharmacy
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- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Art
- Health & Medicine
- European Apothecary
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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