Object Details
- Description
- White and cobalt blue tin-glazed syrup jar with a flared foot and an applied spout and handle. The gold and black lettering inside the cartouche was applied with the cold painting technique. The circumference of the cartouche is embellished with a variety of decorative motifs including a basket of flowers, flanked by two peacocks, scrolls, tassels, swags of flowers and the head of an angel.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- Date made
- 18th Century
- Credit Line
- Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
- Physical Description
- ceramic (overall material)
- Object Name
- Jar
- syrup jar
- Other Terms
- Jar; Pharmaceutical Container
