Furniture, Works of Art & Clocks - 17th January 2024
Lot 131
A BOXWOOD MEDICINE BOTTLE CASE AND COVER
Estimate £100 - £150 | Hammer £113
Inc. Buyers Premium
Description
A BOXWOOD MEDICINE BOTTLE CASE AND COVER
EARLY 20TH CENTURY
containing a glass bottle, stopper and beaker, two cylindrical powderers with domed covers, a cylindrical inkwell and cover, a syringe case, a container and cover containing an hour-glass and a spherical box and cover on a short foot (7)
22.5cm high (max)
Provenance
The Geoffrey Chesters Collection of Treen.
Catalogue Note
For a similar medicine bottle case and cover, see Edward H Pinto (EH), Treen and other Wooden Bygones, ill 53 (C and D) where similar items are described as 'predecessors of the vacuum flask'.