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Type of Object
Mortar
Date of Manufacture
1700-1799
Physical Details
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."
Dimensions
10 cm. x 14.5 cm. x 14.5 cm.
Medical Subject
Drug Compounding -- instrumentation
Accession Number
2004.8.21a
Genre
medical equipment
Local Genre
medical artifact
Type
Still Image
Digital Format
image/jpg
Language
eng
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Rights
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Collection
Medical Artifacts Collection
Source
Original object: Brass Mortar, VCU Health Sciences Library Medical Artifacts. Special Collections and Archives, VCU Health Sciences Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va.
File Name
mar00081.jpg