Object Details
- Description
- This drug jar is marked "SAGO" and the initials HN appear on the bottom of the jar. Sago is a type of palm tree fround on the islands of South East Asia. It is made into a powdery starch, and used to thicken food such as pudding and jelly.
- Urdang attributes containers 1991.0664.0760 through 1991.0664.0825 to Hanau in the late 18th century based on the floral design surrounding the medallion and the initials HN on the bottom of many of the jars in the series. However, in a letter to museum curators dated August 1983, the pharmaceutical historian Wolfgang-Hagen Hein wrote that the unmarked containers and those marked FH were made in Florsheim in the German state of Hesse.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
- 1790-1810
- 1775 - 1799
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0815
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- collector/donor number
- SAP 739
- catalog number
- 1991.0664.0815
- Object Name
- jar
- Other Terms
- jar; Pharmaceutical Container
- Physical Description
- ceramic (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 16 cm x 10.5 cm; 6 5/16 in x 4 1/8 in
- place made
- Germany: Hesse, Hanau
- 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
- European Apothecary
- Art
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Pharmacy
- Record ID
- nmah_993755
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a8-4578-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
