MERC VIVUS
MERC VIVUS
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- Description
- This straight walled cylindrical wooden drug jar has a removable wooden peg that fits into a hole at the top of the container. The drug jar and the top of the peg are painted dark green. An ivory-colored, oval medallion surrounded by stylized black leaves with a red ribbon at the bottom of the medallion. There is an incised line just below the top and just above the base of the container. The interior of the medallian is marked in black, "MEP?G/VIVUS".
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Jar
- place made
- Germany
- Physical Description
- wood (overall material)
- paint (overall material)
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0866
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- catalog number
- M-06076
- Credit Line
- Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
- subject
- Pharmacy
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- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Art
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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