M0019958: A bronze and a bell-metal mortar

Previous title, replaced July 2022: Two bell-metal mortars, one lug only.

Photograph of two mortars each with one lug (handle). One is c.17th century and is decorated with three representations of a coat of arms, a tower surmounted by a five-petalled flower and the initials "G.V.". It was presented to the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1961 and given accession number A106234. The other was acquired by the Museum at an unknown point and accessioned in the 1910s (accession number R18112)

September-December 1964

2 photographs sheet film negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm photographic print; 9 x 12 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession registers which provide entries for the items: A106234 and R18112

Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

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 2022.

This item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.