Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- This cylindrical straight walled drug jar has a glazed white background and a blue cartouche. A basket of fruit sits atop the cartouche and is flanked by two peacocks. The center of the cartouche is marked, E/ MITHRID: DAMO". Mithrid Damo is probably Mithridate a mixture of fifty or more ingredients, and was used as an antidote for poisons. It was named for Mithridatre VI King of Pontus (134-63 BCE), who was supposed to have invented the concoction to protect himself from being poisoned by his enemies.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
- 18th century
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0838
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- collector/donor number
- SAP 762
- catalog number
- 1991.0664.0838
- Object Name
- jar
- Physical Description
- ceramic (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 33.5 cm x 20.5 cm; 13 3/16 in x 8 1/16 in
- place made
- Netherlands
- Related Publication
- Wittop Koning, D.A.. Delftse Apothekers Potten
- Urdang, George and Ferdinand William Nitardy. The Squibb Ancient Pharmacy: A Catalogue of the Collection
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- European Apothecary
- Art
- National Museum of American History
- subject
- Pharmacy
- Medicine
- Record ID
- nmah_993681
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a8-8c0d-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
