Yellow clay cup-like mortar with large square handle

Made:: 1501-1900

Yellow clay cup-like mortar with large square handle, and cylindrical pestle, possibly European, 1501-1900

Details

Category:: Pharmacy-ware

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A658991

Materials:: pottery

Measurements:: mortar: height 70 mm
incl. handle: width 147 mm
pestle: length 110 mm
pestle, max.: diameter 67 mm

type:: mortars and pestles

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