CONDIT BARDAN RAD

18th century

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.