Pair of Pharmacy Bottles

c. 1500–1510 Overall: 38.8 cm (15 1/4 in.) Source image
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The inscriptions on these two pharmacy bottles suggest that they held medicinal and domestic remedies. One bottle reads SCABIOS, or “scabious water,” which may refer to a teasel root compound that was used to clean and decontaminate velvet. Inscribed on the other bottle is the...

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