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Apothecary jar
1700–1750
Object Place: Puebla, Mexico
Medium/Technique
Tin-glazed earthenware
Dimensions
24.13 x 10.16 x 10.16 cm (9 1/2 x 4 x 4 in.)
Credit Line
Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number00.641
ClassificationsCeramics – Pottery – Earthenware
DescriptionA tall, slender earthenware vessel with incurvate sides in the form of an apothecary jar (or arbarello) used for storing dry drugs or oinments, covered with a white tin-glaze and blue painted decoration. This vessel may have been covered originally with a piece of leather or parchment tied around the top rim with a cord, as was common practice.
Provenance1900, gift of Denman Waldo Ross (b. 1853 - d. 1935), Cambridge, MA, to the MFA. (Accession Date: November 1, 1900)