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Maker(s):Unknown
Culture:Italian
Title:Wet Drug Jar
Date Made:ca. 1600
Type:Container; Medical
Materials:Ceramic; earthenware with tin glaze (maiolica)
Place Made:Europe; Italy; possibly Faenza, Emilia Romagna, or the Marches
Measurements:Overall: 13 1/2 in x 13 in; 34.3 cm x 33 cm
Narrative Inscription:  below spout (blue on blue): A. D. PAPAVERO.
Accession Number:  MH 2002.3.4
Credit Line:Joseph J. Hammer Collection, Gift of Roy A. Hammer
Museum Collection:  Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
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Description:
Ovoid form with spout and double scroll handle. Light blue ground with all-over leafy scroll meander in darker blue. Scrollwork banderole with the name of the drug "A.D.PAPAVERO."; below is a coat of arms in orange and yellow with a medieval tower. Chips and restored cracks.

Label Text:
This drug jar would have been part of a group made for a pharmacy belonging to a family who used the unidentified coat of arms with a tower. The label indicates that it held a medicinal solution made from the leaves or seeds of purslane (portulaca), a versatile plant used for many things including the healing of wounds or burns.

(2007)

Tags:
pottery; containers; medicine; vessels

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https://museums.fivecolleges.edu/detail.php?t=objects&type=ext&id_number=MH+2002.3.4

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