Drug Jar

18th century

This albarello-shaped drug jar is 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, and has a similar blue and manganese pallet. Although similar this container has oval gold and brown medallions painted in the cold technique inside each arch. The waist of the albarello has been left blank allowing the apothecary to reuse the container for different medications and write in the appropriate label.