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PECTORAL B W
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This wide mouth jar has a flared collar and an applied circular foot. The clear glass is decorated with a baked enamel cartouche. A white shield on a blue background is framed by a yellow C-scroll design and capped by a crown. Urdang attributes this jar to the Court Pharmacy of Pillnitz, which today is a city quarter in eastern Dresden, Germany. It is marked <i>PECTORAL B W</i> with red initial letters and the alchemical symbol for powder. A pectoral was a poultice or ointment used in the treatment of upper-respiratory ailments.
National Museum of American History’s own descriptionCredit linePECTORAL B W. 18th century. National Museum of American History, Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company. CC0.
