Leather-covered wooden medicine chest with hinged lid and hinged swing doors at front, decorated with steel strapwork mounts, containing number of bottles with pewter caps, and cylindrical and rectangular pewter containers, very worm-eaten. Dispensed by 'Brevete', Chemist to the King, Paris, ' Rue du Roule No. 8', French, 1771-1848
Details
- Category:
- Materia Medica & Pharmacology
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A79528
- Materials:
- wood, leather, steel, brass, lining, leather, chamois and lining, braid
- type:
- medicine chests
- credit:
- Lelong du Dreneue