Medicine chest with contents

Made:: 1820-1840

Medicine chest, rosewood with silver fittings, contains pewter funnel and 8 glass bottles with excellent labels, mostly by Savory and Moore, c1830

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1820-1840

Funnel from rosewood medicine chest

Medicine chest with contents

1820-1840

Details

Category:: Materia Medica & Pharmacology

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A23870

Materials:: chest, rosewood, mounts and hinges, silver and lining, velvet, red

Measurements:: 125 x 150 x 146 mm

type:: medicine chests

credit:: Loan, Wellcome Trust

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