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
- 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)
- Measurements
- overall: 33.5 cm x 20.5 cm; 13 3/16 in x 8 1/16 in
- Object Name
- jar
