Carved ivory plaque

Made:
1701-1800
Carved ivory plaque Carved ivory plaque
Carved ivory plaque Carved ivory plaque

Creative Commons LicenseThis image is released under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Licence

License this image for commercial use at Science and Society Picture Library

License

Creative Commons LicenseThis image is released under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Licence

License this image for commercial use at Science and Society Picture Library

License

Carved ivory plaque
Science Museum Group
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Carved ivory plaque
Science Museum Group
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Carved ivory plaque, showing 5 figures, one is urinating, another is giving an enema to a third, possibly Italian, possibly 18th century

Details

Category:
Wellcome Medals
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A641121
Materials:
ivory
Measurements:
length 67 mm
width 4 mm
height 46 mm
type:
plaques

Related Objects

Membership badge of the International Congress of School Hygiene, at Nurnberg

Membership badge of the International Congress of School Hygiene
Circular bronze medal, a prize for the best student in anatomy at a medical school in Italy (?), designed by Mercandetti of Rome, Italian 1800-1900

medal, prize

John Hull Grundy
Original box for medal for International Hygiene Exhibition, Dresden, 1911

Medal box
Bronze medal, to commemorate French medical schools, head of Napoleon, artists, Andrieu and Jouannin, French, 1800-1900

Bronze medal

Bronze medal commemorating Pope Pius VI