E CORT: PERUV
E CORT: PERUV
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- Description
- This tin glazed cylindrical drug jar has a short straight neck and flared foot. The container is decorated with cobalt blue laurel branches. The interior of the wreath is marked, “E CORT:PERUV.” The jar is the work of Hugo Brouwer, who owned a ceramics factory in Delft, the Netherlands.
- Object Name
- jar
- jar
- date made
- 1775-1788
- maker
- Hugo Brouwer
- place made
- Netherlands: South Holland, Delft
- Physical Description
- ceramic (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 25.5 cm x 19 cm; 10 1/32 in x 7 15/32 in
- overall: 10 in x 6 1/2 in; 25.4 cm x 16.51 cm
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0841
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- catalog number
- M-06053
- collector/donor number
- SAP 765
- 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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