Object Details
- Description
- This free blown bottle has rounded shoulders, a circular-shaped glass stopper, and dates from the eighteenth century. The baked enamel label is typical of the Rococo style popular at the time. The label is a white oval-shaped cartouche and is outlined with blue stylized acanthus leaves and pink ribbons. The center of the cartouche is marked in black, OL CINAM, Oil of Cinnamon. It is one of a group of six small containers used for oil extracts.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
- 18th century
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0414
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- catalog number
- M-05563
- collector/donor number
- SAP 275
- catalog number
- 1991.0664.0414.01
- 1991.0664.0414.02
- Object Name
- bottle
- bottle
- Other Terms
- bottle; Pharmaceutical Container
- Physical Description
- glass (overall material)
- paint (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 7.8 cm x 4 cm x 4 cm; 3 1/16 in x 1 9/16 in x 1 9/16 in
- overall: 3 1/8 in x 1 1/2 in x 1 1/2 in; 7.9375 cm x 3.81 cm x 3.81 cm
- place made
- Germany
- Related Publication
- Urdang, George and Ferdinand William Nitardy. The Squibb Ancient Pharmacy: A Catalogue of the Collection
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- European Apothecary
- Art
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Medicine
- Pharmacy
- Record ID
- nmah_993819
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746aa-b9be-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
