Collection Highlights
The Indian Hunter
Date:
1860
Object Number:
1939.390
Medium:
Brown patinated bronze
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Medicine bottle
Object Number:
Z.531
Date:
1850-1900
Medium:
Glass, cork, paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 6 3/4 x 2 1/2 in. ( 17.1 x 6.4 cm )
Marks:
printed: on paper wrapping: "[illeg.] DISEASES/Cherry, each bottle will hereafter/be enveloped in this new wrapper/on which will appear the facsimile/of the Principal Agent's Signature [illeg.]
Description:
Aquamarine nonlead glass medicine bottle blown in a three-part mold with down-tooled lip, sloped down shoulder, and octagonal body; remains of paper wrapping covered in some sort of varnish, with illustration of figures under tree above word "DISEASES"; cork wedged in mouth of bottle.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
