Medicine Bottle

1670s height: 41.3 cm (16 1/4 in.) Source image
https://clevelandart.org/art/1966.514

While inspired by medicine jars used in European pharmacies, this bottle was likely decorative. It may have been exported by the Dutch East India Company, a powerful trading company from the Netherlands. In Japan, it operated from Deshima, a man-made island in Nagasaki harbor...

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