Three Late 19thC Glass Apothecary Bottles with Assorted labels, to include one for Perfume sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles Length: 26 inches

Length: 26 inches

The hydrate of sodium sulphate is known as Glauber's Salt after the Dutch/German chemist and apothecary Johann Rudolf Glauber (1604–1670)

stars and guls encased by a running dog border giving way to tarantula lozenges in each corner and a solitary central lozenge motif

especially considering all the use one presumes it has had with rampaging bullocks

and Willem Paerels

Three Late 19thC Glass Apothecary Bottles with Assorted labels, to include one for Perfume sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles Length: 26 inchesOrigin: English Period: Nineteenth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1895 The Larger: Circumference: 10 inches Height: 7 inches The Smaller: Circumference: 6. 5 inches Height: 5 inches The first, and largest, in colourless form with original square cut glass stopper. Larger apothecary bottles such as this would have stored a multitude of various medical powders or liquids; and it is from these storage bottles that medicines would have been mixed,