M0000696: Japanese poison cup

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Japanese poison cup, Rhinocerus hide and ebony base

Photograph of a cup made of rhinoceros hide with an ebony base. The item was previously part of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum but is not held by Wellcome Collection.

01 January 1930

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

This item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.