Bath, with tray to be heated in it

Made:
1601-1900
Bath, with tray to be heated in it, copper, C17 to C19

Creative Commons LicenseThis image is released under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Licence

License this image for commercial use at Science and Society Picture Library

License

Bath, with tray to be heated in it, copper, C17 to C19
Science Museum Group
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Bath, with tray to be heated in it, copper, C17 to C19

Details

Category:
Pharmacy-ware
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A631146
Materials:
whole, copper, handles, brass and hook, iron
Measurements:
height 335 mm
diameter 390 mm
type:
heating baths

Related Objects

Glass, test-tube shaped vial with cork stopper, covered in chamois leather, wrapped with paper label to contain meconic acid, an opium consituent. Manufactured by T and H Smith, Edinburgh, London and Glasgow.

phial; controlled drug; opium
Steel chatelaine, cut and polished, with 5 chains attached terminated by clips, by Boulton and Watt, London

Steel chatelaine

Tin glazed earthenware pill tile
Tall bell-shaped brass mortar, 2 stylised animals, for handles, scroll-work around waist, frieze of figures below ,made by Pedris(?) Van Denc(?), probably Dutch, 1584

Bell-shaped mortar with animal-shaped handles

Pill box used for storing quinine pill labels
Silver vinaigrette, in the form of a rectangular handbag or satchel, with perforated hinged inner lid, stamped with the initials J.L., which probably indicate the makers are John Lawrence & Co and hallmarked in Birmingham, 1817

Vinaigrette in the form of a handbag