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U di Calce
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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>U di calce.</i> The jar would have contained unguentum di calce, or ointment of chalk. The ointment, made of chalk, wax, and oil of roses was used as a salve on burns.
National Museum of American History’s own descriptionCredit lineU di Calce. ca 1500. National Museum of American History, Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company. CC0.
