Brass Pestle
| Title: | Brass Pestle. |
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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: | 24 cm. x 5 cm. x 5 cm. | |
| Physical description: | Long, ornamented brass pestle with separated contact areas for hand and for compounded material. The distal end of the implement is a heavy bell with a slightly flattened base, which is flared outward from the main shaft of the pestle. A flared block separates the grinding from the handling ends of the implement, and the proximal end has four decarative spherical shapes stacked one on top of the other. | |
| Identifier(s): |
Accession Number: 2004.8.21b (accession number) CONTENTdm ID: mar/id/80 (CONTENTdm ID) |
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| Note(s): |
Type of Object: Pestle |
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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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