Ivory mortar and boxwood pestle

Made:: 1700-1900

Ivory mortar, decorated with latitudinal lines, goblet shape, with double ended pestle which may not have originally belonged to mortar, provenance unknown, 1700-1900

Details

Category:: Pharmacy-ware

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A604132

Materials:: mortar, ivory and pestle, boxwood

Measurements:: mortar: height 145 mm
mortar: diameter 96 mm
pestle: length 190 mm
pestle: diameter 43 mm

type:: mortars and pestles

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