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Ell indo mia
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This blue monochrome albarello is decorated with cobalt blue vines and leaves. The escroll in the center of the container is inscribed with gothic script that reads <i>Ell indo mia.</i> This jar possibly could have contained an electuary (or paste) of Indian major leaf.
National Museum of American History’s own descriptionCredit lineEll indo mia. ca 1500. National Museum of American History, Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company. CC0.
