Medicine cabinet
Category
Medical & health
Date
Unknown
Materials
Ebony, velvet, ivory and brass.
Measurements
483 x 475 x 485 mm
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1338256
Summary
Medicine cabinet - Ebonised cabinet with doors front and back, Ivory handles. Lid lifts and has a buttoned red velvet interior. Top of interior has many square, wooden compartments, deeper in the centre, thus forming a pyramid. Front doors open to reveal three shallow shelves, upper two removeable, with compartments and recesses for bottles etc. Below them two drawers with ivory handles. Four removeable shelves in each door, with compartments, some containing pill boxes. All shelves lined and fronted with red velvet. Lock on doors. Doors on back open to reveal a central cupboard with keyhole, brass catch inside and nine drawers (bottom one double width), with ivory knobs (two missing). All with various compartments lined with red textile. Key lock on right door, left held by spring catch, Reeded panels to doors and sides. On an NT provided stand. In notebook no.3, page 6 (1340945.3) Charles Wade refers to: 'Grey 9. Small Ebony Cabinet with double doors back & front, enclosing drawers with delicate mouldings in front. 9 drawers & a cupboard, latter with Architectural detail arch to door, ivory handles. At the back are two drawers & numerous Recesses for Bottles formed with red velvet. Top opens & has many more such recesses, all drawers lined with old rose silk or velvet, some fitted to take instruments. Surgical? Flemish 18 Cent.'. Includes dimensions.
Provenance
CPW item 9 Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.
References
Wade, 1944: Charles Paget Wade, Contents of Snowshill Manor. Volume 3 First Floor, 1944, page 6