CC0 · no rights reserved
CONDIT BARDAN RAD
From the collection of National Museum of American History. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
This whitish gray tin-glazed drug jar has a wide mouth. It is decorated with vines of blue flowers and leaves which create a circular medallion. The interior of the medallion is marked, “CONDIT BARDAN RAD.” The jar would have contained the roots of the bardana plant, a thistle belonging to the genus <i>Arctium</i>. According to George Urdang, the potter’s mark attributes the container to the city of Nuremberg.
National Museum of American History’s own descriptionCredit lineCONDIT BARDAN RAD. 18th century. National Museum of American History, Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company. CC0.
