Tools of the Trade
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English Delftware Drug Jar: Unlabelled with geometric design, around 1570-1700
We know very little about the containers that apothecaries used to store their medicines before the middle of the 1600s. However, it seems likely that ...
English Delftware Heart-Shaped Pill Tile with the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries Coat of Arms, 1670
This English Delftware Heart-Shaped Pill Tile is decorated with the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries Coat of Arms. Inscribed ‘1670 THOMAS FAVTRART OPIFEQUE: PER: ORBEM: DICOR’, it ...
English Delftware Octagonal-Shaped Pill Tile with the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries Coat of Arms, 1680-1750
This English Delftware Octagonal-Shaped Pill Tile is decorated with the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries Coat of Arms and motto ‘OPIFERQUE: PER: ORBEM: DICOR:’ and the ...
English Wedgwood ‘biscuit ware’ composition mortar, with pestle, undated
English Wedgwood ‘biscuit ware’ composition mortar, with pestle, undated When Josiah Wedgwood developed a new ‘biscuit ware’ porcelain in 1779, it largely took over from bell ...
Eye Bath
White ceramic eye bath with indentations on each side for holding with the fingers, but no stem or foot. Eye baths like this would have ...
Eye Bath
Blue glass eye bath on a pedestal. Eye baths like this would have been filled with a cleansing fluid, then held to the patient’s ...
French bell-metal mortar made for Charles Angibaud, Master Apothecary to Louis XIVth, 1678
The bell-metal mortar you see here has quite an extraordinary life story, connecting the Royal Pharmaceutical Society with the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries and King ...
Georgian creamware jar
Georgian Medicine Chest
A very fine mahogany medicine chest which dates from the Georgian period. It has a hinged lid and one hinged door at the front, which ...
Glass Shop Rounds, 1700s
These Bohemian glass shop rounds with painted labels were possibly made in Germany or Bohemia (today much of the Czech Republic) in the 1700s. Their ...