Object Details
- Description
- This blown and molded bottle has a skinny neck and a flared lip. The bottle has a baked enamel label framed by a Baroque-style blue and yellow cartouche. The label readsESS MYRRH in black text, with the first initial of each word in red. This jar would have contained Essence of Myrrh. Myrrh could be used as a tonic, diaphoretic, expectorant, stomachic, and antiseptic.
- 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
- glass (overall material)
- paint (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 13 cm x 6.7 cm x 7 cm; 5 1/8 in x 2 5/8 in x 2 3/4 in
- Object Name
- bottle
- Other Terms
- bottle; Pharmaceutical Container
