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AURANT
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This blown and molded square-shaped bottle has a narrow neck, a flared lip, and a round glass stopper. The baked white enamel shield is framed by stylized blue leaves with red and yellow flowers. A yellow crown sits atop the shield. The label has the alchemical symbol for Spirits above the text <i>AURANT.</i> This bottle would have held a solution of aurantiorum (orange) that was prescribed to help stomach pains.
National Museum of American History’s own descriptionCredit lineAURANT. 17th-18th century. National Museum of American History, Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company. CC0.
