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LicenseBlue and white albarello vase, used for savin oil, North Italy
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Blue and white albarello vase, used for savin oil, North Italy
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Blue and white albarello vase, used for savin oil, North Italy, 1701-1800
The inscription Estratto di Sabina translates from Latin as “Extract of Savin”. This refers to a species of juniper, whose berries would have been pressed and infused with olive oil to make the treatment.
A pharmacy text from the 1730s recommended its use for easing the pain of childbirth and for asthma. Just over a hundred years later, the same treatment was used to control menstrual bleeding and to treat or prevent infections caused by parasitic worms.
Details
- Category:
- Medical Ceramic-ware
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A631906
- Materials:
- pottery, blue and white
- Measurements:
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overall: 115 mm 90 mm, .26kg
- type:
- drug jar
- credit:
- Buel, O.
