Medicine chest

Made:: 1810-1850 in London

maker:: Chubb and Son's Lock and Safe Company Limited

Medicine chest, covered in inlaid decoration (flora and fauna)

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Medicine chest, covered in inlaid decoration (flora and fauna)
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Medicine chest, covered in inlaid decoration (flora and fauna), by Leuchars of London, with glass bottles (12 bottles), from Dinneford, New Bond Street, c1830

Details

Category:: Materia Medica & Pharmacology

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A179321

Materials:: inlay, brass, lacquer and lining, velvet, red

type:: medicine chests

credit:: Sotheby's

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