Medicine chest
Category
Medical & health
Date
1800
Materials
Brass, Glass, Linen, Mercury, Paper, Plaster, Silk, Stone, Wood
Measurements
356 mm (H)305 mm (W)
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1338260.1
Summary
Medicine chest, c.1800, with contents. Of modified Duke of York type. Brass swan necked handle to rising lid. Panels either side can be removed by sliding them upwards when their spring catches are released from within the chest. There are also doors front the back. Rising lid can be opened after front door opens, lifts to reveal; Central compartment for six large bottles. Behind central compartment there is a shelf with partitions with several later objects. To either side of central compartment are two further compartments, each with wooden cover, also containing various objects. The front door, which latches the lid, opens to reveal partitioned racks for twelve large bottles (not all present). Many labeled. Behind rising panel on right side of chest; Upper layer partitioned for five small bottles. Below are two small drawers, upper drawer containing various assortments. Behind rising panel on left side of chest ; partitioned for five bottles, four present.
Provenance
a letter inside one canister addressed to Charles Wade from Tivoli House, Cheltenham Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.