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- Date of production 1706
- Place of creation Italy
- Dimensions height: 33.1 cm, diameter: base: 10.5 cm
- ID no. KGZ 5920
- Museum The Museum of Pharmacy at the Jagiellonian University Medical College in Kraków
- Subjects daily life, health
- Technique glazing, baking, underglaze painting
- Material maiolica
- Object copyright The Museum of Pharmacy at the Jagiellonian University Medical College in Kraków
- Digital images copyright public domain
- Digitalisation RDW MIC, Małopolska's Virtual Museums project
- Tags health , disease , medicine , ceramics , vessel , pharmacy , plants , herbs , 3D , 3D plus , storage , public domain
The maiolica pharmacy jug is decorated with an orange, blue, and green plant ornament. It is worth noting the unusual handle – parallel (not perpendicular) to the jug’s body – thanks to which it was possible to lift and carry such a large and heavy vessel using a lowered hand. Under the handle, there is a mascaron head, resembling that of a lion.
moreThe maiolica pharmacy jug is decorated with an orange, blue, and green plant ornament. It is worth noting the unusual handle – parallel (not perpendicular) to the jug’s body – thanks to which it was possible to lift and carry such a large and heavy vessel using a lowered hand. Under the handle, there is a mascaron head, resembling that of a lion. In the front, above the name of the drug, there is a half-moon and a star, indicating Mauritanian connections (Maiolica vessels were created under the influence of Mauritanian-Spanish ceramics, imported to Italy through Majorca [hence the name]). What was stored in the vessel? According to the inscription on the ribbon, it was A [QUA] DI CARDO – blessed thistle water – that is, a water distillation of a cnicus. The plant (Cnicus benedictus in Latin) was known in the past as Carduus sanctus – “holy thistle“ – due to the numerous healing properties attributed to it, especially in the period from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century: “it removes every headache, strengthens memory, strengthens the brain and eyes, (...) cleanses the stomach, activates appetite, enlarges breasts, takes away a stomach-ache, (...) crushes the kidney stone, destroys pimples in a can cumbering the wind, (...) it is also helpful against uterus wringing, also will please the heart”[1].
The vessel, from a collection of pharmacy ceramics, was donated to the museum by the Master of Pharmacy, Mateusz Bronisław Grabowski, from London in 1976.
[1] M. Siennik, Herbarz, Kraków 1568, p. 543.
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