Box from medicine chest
Empty, square pewter box with lid, from Giustiniani medicine chest
Medicine chest, large, leather covered, contains 71 bottles, some with labels, 78 pewter boxes, and 17 other pieces, probably made for Vincenzo Giustiniani, Genoese Governor of between 1562 and 1566
Some of the bottles still appear to have their 16th-century contents, including compounds such as rhubarb powder, juniper water and mustard oil.
Empty, square pewter box with lid, from Giustiniani medicine chest
Square pewter box, containing a fine powder, with lid, from Giustiniani medicine chest
Square pewter box, containing a white stone, with lid, from Giustiniani medicine chest
Square pewter box, containing a brown powder, with lid, from Giustiniani medicine chest
Empty, square pewter box with lid, from Giustiniani medicine chest
Empty, square, pewter box with lid, from Giustiniani medicine chest
Empty, square pewter box with lid, labelled 'Pol 63', from Giustiniani medicine chest
Square pewter box, lid labelled with 'coralli rossi 4', translated as red coral, from Giustiniani medicine chest
Empty, square, pewter box with lid, from Giustiniani medicine chest
Empty, square, pewter box, from Giustiniani medicine chest
Square, pewter box with lid, labelled 'Sal di...affichi', likely to be for a type of salt, with contents, from Giustiniani medicine chest
Empty, square, pewter box with lid, labelled 'Sulphur metall: 1', for sulphur, from Giustiniani medicine chest
Empty, square pewter box with lid, from Giustiniani medicine chest
Square pewter box, with some contents, from Giustiniani medicine chest
Square pewter box with lid, with some contents, labelled, 'Polv.per le morici 19' translated as powder for piles, from Giustiniani medicine chest
Square pewter box with lid, with some contents, labelled, 'Polv.p le morici' translated as powder for piles, from Giustiniani medicine chest
Empty, square pewter box with lid, labelled, 'Terra sigillata 17', from Giustiniani medicine chest
Square pewter box with lid, containing gold leaf, labelled, 'Oro purgante 16' translated as purgative gold, from Giustiniani medicine chest
Empty, square pewter box with lid, from Giustiniani medicine chest
Square pewter box with lid, with some contents, labelled 'Estratto di grani di Sambuco 29', translated as extract of sambucus seeds, from Giustiniani medicine chest
Square pewter box with lid, with some contents, labelled '..podio 21', likely to be for extract of polipody, from Giustiniani medicine chest
Square pewter box with lid, with some contents, from Giustiniani medicine chest
Square pewter box with lid, with some contents, labelled 'Elettuario....54', translated as electuary, from Giustiniani medicine chest
Square pewter box with lid, with some contents, from Giustiniani medicine chest
Square pewter box with lid, labelled 'Elettuario per i denti 51', translated as electuary for the teeth, from Giustiniani medicine chest
Square pewter box with lid, with some contents, labelled 'Giacinto 52', translated as hyacinth extract, from Giustiniani medicine chest
Square pewter box with lid, with contents, from Giustiniani medicine chest
Pewter box with sliding lid and central hole for knob (missing), labelled as 'Triaca d'Andromaco 48', translated as of Theriac of Andromachus (aromatic water of theriac, bezoar stone and unicorn horn). 32 mm x 43 mm x 45 mm. Unknown maker, Italian, c. 1560s.
Square pewter box with lid, labelled 'Bolo Armeno Orientale 49', translated as Armenian earth, from Giustiniani medicine chest
Square pewter box with lid, from Giustiniani medicine chest
Square pewter box with lid, labelled 'Pilloi d'Aloe 46', translated as pills of aloes, from Giustiniani medicine chest
Empty, square pewter box with lid, labelled 'Orvietano 31', translated as orvietanum, from Giustiniani medicine chest
Square pewter box with lid, labelled 'Teriac nuoua', translated as new theriac, from Giustiniani medicine chest
Empty, square pewter box with lid, labelled 'Vnguento gratia Dei 37', translated as ointment, grace of, from Giustiniani medicine chest
Square pewter box with lid, with contents, labelled 'ceroto da stomacco 39', translated as plaster for the stomach, from Giustiniani medicine chest
Square pewter box with lid, labelled 'Ceroto pro foetus retentione', translated as plaster for retaining the foetus, for preventing miscarriages, from Giustiniani medicine chest
Square pewter box with lid, with contents, labelled 'Vnguento da milza', translated as ointment for the spleen, from Giustiniani medicine chest
Square pewter box with lid, with contents, labelled 'Ceroto da ferite 38', translated as plaster for wounds, from Giustiniani medicine chest
Square pewter box with lid, with contents, labelled, from Giustiniani medicine chest
Square pewter box with lid, with contents, labelled 'Vngeunto da morici 43', translated as ointment for piles, from Giustiniani medicine chest
Large pewter box with sliding lid and knob, labelled, 'Mitridato;' containing a dried block of Mithridate. 36 mm x 58 mm x 56 mm. Unknown maker, Italian, c. 1560s.
Square pewter box with lid, with contents, labelled 'Teriac vecchia 42', translated as old theriac, from Giustiniani medicine chest
Square pewter box with contents, from Giustiniani medicine chest
Square pewter box with lid, labelled 'Cerottu Speronaglia', a type of plaster, from Giustiniani medicine chest
Square pewter box with lid, labelled 'Vngeunto da caroli 47', translated as camomile ointment, from Giustiniani medicine chest
Square pewter box with lid, labelled 'Vnguento da gambe 32', ointment for legs, from Giustiniani medicine chest
Square pewter box with lid, labelled Estratto di Mechiocam 30', extract of mechiocam, from Giustiniani medicine chest
Square pewter box with lid, labelled 'Estratto di Rabarbarbo', translated as rhubarb extract, from Giustiniani medicine chest
Square pewter box with solid contents, from Giustiniani medicine chest
Square pewter box with lid, labelled 'Estratto..', a type of extract, from Giustiniani medicine chest
Square pewter box with lid, labelled 'Estratto di ligno santo 23', translated as extract of holy wood, from Giustiniani medicine chest
Square pewter box with lid, labelled 'Estratto di Senna', translated as extract of senna, from Giustiniani medicine chest
Square pewter box with lid, labelled 'Estratto d'Agarico 27', translated as extract of agaric, from Giustiniani medicine chest
Square pewter box containing a black solid mass, from Giustiniani medicine chest
Square pewter box with lid, labelled 'Estratto di Elleboro 25', translated as extract of hellebore, from Giustiniani medicine chest
Box, pewter, of unknown white solid
Box, pewter, for a preparation of hartshorn
Box, pewter, of unknown brown solid
Box, pewter, of unknown drug
Box, pewter, for a preparation of hartshorn
Box, pewter, empty, for preparation of hartshorn
Box, pewter. for hyacinth preparation
Box, pewter, 5-sided, empty
Box, pewter, of unknown brown solid
Box, small, pewter, empty
Box, pewter, of unknown ointment
Box, pewter, of unidentified brown solid
Box, pewter, for unidentified powder
Box, pewter, containing unidentified red-brown grease
Box, pewter, 5 sided, containing unidentified crocus
Box, pewter, open top, empty
Box, small, pewter, empty
Box, small, pewter, of unicorn's horn
Box, small, pewter, empty, once containing a powder against fever
Box, small, pewter, empty
Box, small, pewter, empty
Mortar, marble
Pestle, agate
4 fish ossicles
Stick of unknown clear yellow substance
Small brush, elaborate velvet covered handle
Section of antler
2 cylindrical pieces of wax
2 pieces of chalk
3 pieces of fishes' spine(?)
Chunk of petrified wood
Box, pewter, empty
Box (no lid), pewter, empty
Hand-held equal-arm balance, swan neck ends, brass and iron
2 nested weights, brass
Box painted with Giustiniani arms, with 5 plasters
Bottle, triangular, of unknown black oil
Bottle of green-brown oil
Bottle of red-brown oil
Bottle of orange oil
Bottle of platy crystals
Bottle, triangular, of yellow solid
Bottle, trapezoidal, empty for aromatic water of theriac and bezoar stone
Bottle with dark substances for oil of amber
Bottle with orange substance