Cantaride prep
Cantaride prep
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- Description (Brief)
- This albarello-shaped drug jar has a light blue under glaze, and is decorated with cobalt blue flowers and birds. The escroll at the waist is marked in black gothic script with the cold technique Cantaride prep. Cantharides is powdered Spanish flies. It was applied to the skin and sometimes used as a blistering agent.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- albarello
- Other Terms
- jar; Pharmaceutical Container
- Physical Description
- ceramic (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 25.3 cm x 18 cm; 9 31/32 in x 7 3/32 in
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0637
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- collector/donor number
- SAP 561
- catalog number
- 1991.0664.0637
- Credit Line
- Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
- subject
- Pharmacy
- Medicine
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- European Apothecary
- Art
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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