Pharmacy bottle (one of a pair)

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Latin mottos "Virtue always burns" and "Virtue has no value if one has no faith" may relate to the bottles’ owner, whose coat of arms appears between the inscriptions. Prominent labels indicate that the vessels (see also 02.5.59) once held extracts of wood bettony and maidenhair fern.

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The fifty thousand objects in the Museum's comprehensive and historically important collection of European sculpture and decorative arts reflect the development of a number of art forms in Western European countries from the early fifteenth through the early twentieth century. The holdings include sculpture in many sizes and media, woodwork and furniture, ceramics and glass, metalwork and jewelry, horological and mathematical instruments, and tapestries and textiles. Ceramics made in Asia for export to European markets and sculpture and decorative arts produced in Latin America during this period are also included among these works.

Metropolitan Museum of Art