M0018912: Glass alembic, or alchemical still

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Glass still head. Early example - greenish glass

Photograph of a 16th or 17th century alembic. It was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Musuem at an unknown point and accessioned in 1951 (accession number R5/1951)

December 1961-January 1962

1 photograph sheet film negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the item: R5/1951

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.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.