Vintage Pharmacy, Diorama

Vintage Pharmacy ("Gründerzeit Apotheke"), diorama. Made by French miniaturist Jean Jacques Brisson. Diorama represents a fragment of the interior of an vintage pharmacy about end of 19th century in a glazed box with wall-hanger, integrated into an elegant wooden frame.  In the pharmacy there is a presentation cabinet (cupboard) with faience cylindrical albarelli (jars) without lids with inscriptions of medicinal substances, the lower part of the cabinet has nine drawers with bronze handles and inscriptions. Next to the cabinet is the pharmacist's workplace, kind of a bureau of drawers with doors and lockers. On the working surface of bureau, pharmacist's scales, mortar and pestle, prescription, pharmacy shop rounds without stoppers, and other containers with substances are placed in a businesslike disorder.

Provenance

Aquired at the Lances Auction, Germany, 25.11.2023. 

Dimensions and weight

Dimensions with frame: width 34 cm; height 38,8 cm, depth 9 cm. Dimensions of the diorama box: width 22,4 cm; height 27 cm; depth 7 cm.

Total weight 1.420 g