BALS COPAIV
BALS COPAIV
- Description
- This square blown and molded bottle has a flat collar, and is decorated with a baked white enamel cartouche framed by stylized blue leaves, and yellow and red flowers. It is marked in black BALS COPAIV. Brought from Central and South America to Europe in the 17th century, Copaiva is the juice of a tree, the Copaitera Balsamum. Its uses are many, from calming the nervous system to treating genital and urinary infections.
- 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)
- yellow (overall color)
- red (overall color)
- hand blown (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- overall: 10.8 cm x 4.8 cm x 4.9 cm; 4 1/4 in x 1 7/8 in x 1 15/16 in
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0213
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- catalog number
- M-05361
- collector/donor number
- SAP 70
- catalog number
- 1991.0664.0213
- 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
