Jar, tall hourglass shape, blue crowned Hapsburg double eagle with "OLIBANUM" (worn cond.) below on white ground; minor damage to rim and base; Height: 28.cm Apothecary jar for Frankincense, ca. 1810 Glazed, wheel thrown ceramin Purchased from son of a pharmacist whose family was going out of business
Donor:
James K. Senior and Rose D. Senior
Collection place:
Spain
Verbatim coll. place:
Europe, Spain
Culture or time period:
Spaniards
Collection date:
ca. 1910
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Jars
Function:
1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
Accession date:
1970
Department:
Europe and western Russia (except Classical Mediterranean)
Loans:
S1978-1979 #61: University of California, Berkeley (April 10, 1979–September 18, 1979)