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Drug Jar
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This blue and white albarello-shaped drug jar has two bands of blue arches or false gadroons. On the upper shoulder is a portrait of an African man in the center of the top border. The borders are decorated with blue arches or false gadroons. In <i>Apothecary Jars</i> by Rudolf Drey, a similar jar to 1991.0664.0648 through 1991.0664.0664, is illustrated, and attributed to Savona, a seaport town in northern Italy, which has a similar blue and manganese pallet.
National Museum of American History’s own descriptionCredit lineDrug Jar. 18th century. National Museum of American History, Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company. CC0.
