A sumptuous travel apothecary

A sumptuous travel apothecary Comprising a small ruby glass goblet, four hexagonal ruby glass bottles with silver mounts, three gilt cylindrical boxes with gadrooned slip lids, two medicine spoons and a small vermeil funnel. Housed in the original tortoiseshell case with old silk lining and a small drawer. The lid finely inlaid with mother-of-pearl depicting two putti as physicians within an oval foliate reserve with acanthus scrolls, one holding a test tube. Above them, two flying putti with a scroll inscribed “Morbum Noscere Curationis Principium.” (“To recognise the disease is the beginning of the cure.”) Unmarked. Case height 7.4; width 12.2; depth 9.5 cm. South German, late 17th C.

Estimate:£5,023.11

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