Brass Mortar
| Title: | Brass Mortar. |
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| Name(s): |
Virginia Commonwealth University. Health Sciences Library. Special Collections & Archives, contributor VCU Libraries, publisher |
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| Type of Resource: | still image | |
| Genre: | Medical artifact | |
| Date Created: | 1700-1799 | |
| Extent: | 10 cm. x 14.5 cm. x 14.5 cm. | |
| Physical description: | Heavy hand-cast brass mortar with bead and crescent ornamentation. The bottom of the mortar is slighly uneven, as are the exterior ornamental details. The outside has four columns of four-ranked bead details, and four columns of roughly butterly-shaped opposing crescent and bar patterns, all somewhat rough-hewn. The top of the barrel has a protruding lip which extends approximately 40 degrees from the core of the mortar, and then folds into a steeply vertical drop to a rounded base. The brass on the interior is slighly pockmarked. There is a strip of clear tape affixed to the top of the mortar with some writing in pencil: "Jan 5, 1966 [illegible] Tho[?] Leesburg Va." | |
| Identifier(s): |
Accession Number: 2004.8.21a (accession number) CONTENTdm ID: mar/id/79 (CONTENTdm ID) |
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| Note(s): |
Type of Object: Mortar |
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| Subject(s): |
Time Period: Eighteenth century Drug Compounding -- instrumentation |
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| LC Classification: | R856.A5 | |
| Rights Statement URL: | https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-NC/1.0/ | |
| Rights Statement: | In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted | |
| Rights: | This material is protected by copyright, and copyright is held by VCU. You are permitted to use this material in any way that is permitted by copyright. In addition, this material is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/). Acknowledgment of Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is required. | |
| Is Part Of: | Collection: Medical Artifacts Collection. | |
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