Ivory mortar and pestle

Made:: 1700-1900

Goblet-shaped ivory mortar, badly broken base and with metal strip around rim, with ivory pestle with some latitudinal line decoration, provenance unknown, 1700-1900

Details

Category:: Pharmacy-ware

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A604114

Materials:: mortar, ivory, pestle, ivory and mortar, bronze

type:: mortars and pestles

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