M0000003: pair of antimony vases and a china lip salve pot

Previous title, replaced May 2020: No info available about this object

Two images displayed side by side. On the left is a pair of small, conjoined Eqyptian antimony vases. On the right is a china lip salve pot decorated with painted sprays of forget-me-nots. The items were acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1917 (accession number 9622) and 1918 (accession number 10503) but are not held by Wellcome Collection. Related images: M0000002.

03 June 1929

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession registers which provide entries for the items (acc. number 6422> image 96 and acc. number 10503 image 107)

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.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.