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Maker(s):Unknown
Culture:Dutch
Title:Albarello
Date Made:ca. 1750
Type:Container; Medical
Materials:Earthenware; cobalt pigment with tin glaze (delftware)
Place Made:Europe; Holland (Netherlands)
Measurements:Overall: 6 1/2 in x 3 1/4 in; 16.5 cm x 8.3 cm
Narrative Inscription:  INSCRIPTION: ctr. (blue on white ground): P / • MERCVRIA •
Accession Number:  MH 2002.3.50
Credit Line:Joseph J. Hammer Collection, Gift of Roy A. Hammer
Museum Collection:  Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
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Description:
Drug jar painted in blue with a cartouche outlined in strapwork and surmounted by confronting peacocks over a cherub, inscribed "P. MERCURIA."

Label Text:
Dutch and English delftware vessels like this one were produced by the tens of thousands throughout the 18th century. These jars were decorated with some variation of a contents label flanked by peacocks with a basket of fruit or flowers above and a cherub below. This example held mercury pills that were used to treat various maladies, most notably, syphilis.

Tags:
pottery; containers; medicine

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