{"id":3006,"date":"2010-07-16T15:15:15","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T20:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andrewbaseman.com\/blog\/?p=3006"},"modified":"2010-12-25T12:55:53","modified_gmt":"2010-12-25T17:55:53","slug":"santa-maria-novella-pharmacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=3006","title":{"rendered":"Santa Maria Novella Pharmacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was in Florence, Italy last year I was taken to Santa Maria Novella Pharmacy, established by Dominican monks in the 13th century and now one of the oldest pharmacies in the world. I found it to be more of a museum which also happens to sell soaps and elixirs, with many gorgeous rooms filled with faded antique furnishings and\u00a0fresco painted walls. Much to my delight,\u00a0I stumbled upon a glass showcase in a back room, filled with antique pottery with inventive repairs. I am guessing that very few people in the pharmacy take notice of the unusual ceramic vessels with prosthetic handles<\/p>\n<p>The antique majolica apothecary jar in front has replacement handles made of metal which copied the shape of the original ceramic handles, as seen on the intact jars behind it<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3008\" title=\"IMG_0867_2\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0867_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0867_2.jpg 399w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0867_2-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The four antique majolica apothecary jars in the back row all have similar metal\u00a0replacement handles, copying the shape of the original handles seen on the three \u00a0jars in front of them<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/flickr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3007\" title=\"flickr\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/flickr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/flickr.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/flickr-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\">Flickr<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was in Florence, Italy last year I was taken to Santa Maria Novella Pharmacy, established by Dominican monks in the 13th century and now one of the oldest pharmacies in the world. I found it to be more of a museum which also happens to sell soaps and elixirs, with many gorgeous rooms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[149],"tags":[141,40,100],"class_list":["post-3006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anecdotal","tag-italian","tag-metal-handle","tag-pottery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3006"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3412,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3006\/revisions\/3412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}