Object Details
- Description
- This albarello has a white background and blue, green, purple–brown and yellow–orange stylized floral motifs flanked by solid bands of color. Pharmaceutical historian George Urdang dates this albarello to 16th-century Florence. In a letter dated 7 October 1973, pharmaceutical historian and author Dr. D. A. Wittop Koning attributes the place of origin to the Netherlands, and Professor Wolfgang–Hagen Hein, to 16th-century Antwerpen.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- Date made
- 1500 - 1599
- Credit Line
- Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
- Physical Description
- ceramic (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 21.5 cm x 11 cm; 8 15/32 in x 4 11/32 in
- Object Name
- jar
- albarello
