Medicine kit
- Made:
- before 1915 in Japan
Medicine kit, consisting of gold lacquered jubako, coconut cup and ivory netsuke strung together with cord, Japanese, 18th or 19th century
Details
- Category:
- Asian Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A641978
- credit:
- Glendining
Parts
Decorated jobako
Wooden jobako, gold lacquered and decorated with mother-of-pearl, unscrews to form 4 different containers, on wooden stand
- Measurements:
-
overall: 155 mm 100 mm,
- Materials:
- complete , mother of pearl , metal and wood
- Object Number:
- A641978 Pt2
- type:
- jobako and materia medica chest
- Image ©
- The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Decorated drinking cup
Coconut drinking cup, hemispherical, outside finely carved with flowers, with drilled handle for threading cord
Cord for medicine kit
Cord, for medicine kit which consists of gold lacquered jobako, coconut cup and ivory netsuke , Japanese, 1701-1900