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Netherlands, 1638
Mortar and pestle, baroque, The Netherlands, 1638. Bell shaped, two carved handles, and two floral friezes. On the upper part circular inscription: LOF * GODT * VAN * AL * Ao * 1638 (Praise God by all, in the year 1638), 11 cm
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France, 21 C.
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 albarelli (jars) 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.