Jar
ca. 1760-1765 (made)
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Drug jar covered with a tin glaze and painted in blue.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | White earthenware covered with a tin glaze and painted in monochrome blue |
| Brief description | White earthenware covered with a tin glaze and painted in monochrome blue. Swedish (Marieberg), 1760-65 |
| Physical description | Drug jar covered with a tin glaze and painted in blue. |
| Marks and inscriptions |
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| Credit line | Given by Christian Hammer |
| Object history | Made for the pharmacy of the Serafimer hospital in Stockholm. 'Georgii' is painted on the reverse of the jar and refers to John Christian Georgii who was the pharmacist at the hospital from 1753. |
| Historical context | The jar bears the drug name P:S: STAPH:AGR which may stand for 'pulvis simplex staphisagriae' (simple powder of stavesacre). Note in Register: An identically similar jar, but labelled P:R:Pocon, was brought in for opinion in August 1956 by Mrs. Busby (13 Hayter Road, Brixton Hill, S.W.2). See also C. Hernmarck, Marieberg, Stockholm (1946), p.100 and fig.47, showing an identically similar jar labelled P:R;Althae:. These jars were made for the pharmacy of the Serafimerlasaret. The word "Georgii" which appears on almost all of them stands for John Christian Georgii, the druggist at the hospital from 1753 onwards (information from Dr. Carl Hernmarck, 3 Sept. 1956). |
| Production | Made when J.E.L. Ehrenreich was in charge of the factory |
| Bibliographic reference | Drey, Rudolf, Apothecary Jars, London, 1978 |
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| Accession number | 247-1866 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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