Blue and white china medicine bottle with tall wooden stopper in form of human figure
- Made:
- 1851-1910
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Blue and white china medicine bottle with tall wooden stopper in form of human figure, collected by Elbert expedition, from Sumatra, 1851-1910
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A656072
- Materials:
- porcelain, stopper, wood, stopper, fibre, stopper, shell and stopper, resin
- Measurements:
-
bottle: height 48 mm
base: diameter 45 mm
rim: diameter 35 mm
with stopper: height 170 mm
stopper: width 45 mm
- type:
- bottle
- credit:
- Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)
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