Collection Highlights
Common Sense
Date:
1776
Object Number:
LIB.Y1776.Paine.com
Medium:
Pamphlet, paper
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Medicine chest
Object Number:
1948.136
Date:
1800-1830
Medium:
Wood, brass, glass, paper
Dimensions:
chest: 11 3/4 x 17 1/2 x 12 1/4 in. (29.8 x 44.5 x 31.1 cm)
Marks:
etched: on several bottles: "Oxalte: d'Ammque:"; "Phosphte: de Soude" [various other inscriptions identifying original contents]
etched: on several bottles: "E. & A./ N. Y./ Made in Germany"
Description:
Wooden slant-top medicine chest with hinged lid, dovetailed corners, and brass mount with bail handle; on side near back, narrow drawer with turned wooden pull, with cover; inside chest, five stepped tiers with seven spaces cut out of each to hold round bottles; 35 colorless blown glass round bottles of slightly different sizes with rounded shoulder tapering to circular base, cylindrical neck, and pontil mark ground down, with pressed glass stoppers; some of bottles with etched panels with inscriptions.
Credit Line:
Gift of Col. G. Creighton Webb, through Mrs. Jorge R. André
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
