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Pharmacy Bottle
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About this work
Pharmacy bottles that lined the shelves of Renaissance pharmacies often held medicinal herbs, spices, and ointments. The inscription on this bottle reads CAPILLV, which was a liquid extracted from a fern-like plant commonly referred to as “maiden’s hair water.”
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit linePharmacy Bottle, c. 1500–1510. Italy, Papal States, Faenza. Tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica); overall: 38.8 cm (15 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1943.52.2
