ELECTVARIUM DUCIS
ELECTVARIUM DUCIS
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- Description
- This is a blue, yellow, and green tin–glazed waisted drug jar. The jar is decorated with a female mythological figure with a swan in one hand and flowers in the other, set against a landscape. On either side of the figure are vertical bands of foliage. An escrol above the figure is marked “ELECTVARIUM DUCIS.” The jar would have contained an electuary (a medicine mixed with honey into a paste) formulated for the Duke of Savoy. An electuary was taken orally, and this preparation was used to relieve flatulence and indigestion.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- jar
- jar, albarello
- Date made
- 1700 - 1799
- place made
- Italy
- Physical Description
- ceramic (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 28.5 cm x 16.6 cm; 11 7/32 in x 6 17/32 in
- overall: 11 1/2 in x 6 1/8 in; 29.21 cm x 15.5575 cm
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0647
- catalog number
- M-05859
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- collector/donor number
- SAP 571
- catalog number
- 1991.0664.0647
- Credit Line
- Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
- subject
- Pharmacy
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- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- European Apothecary
- Art
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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