M0013979: Bavarian infant feeding bottle, Bavarian, 17th-18th century

Date:: May 1955

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/125/43

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    - Images from the photographic libraryWT/D/1/20
      - Photographic library: "M" seriesWT/D/1/20/1
        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0013922-M0014050WT/D/1/20/1/125
        M0013979: Bavarian infant feeding bottle, Bavarian, 17th-18th centuryWT/D/1/20/1/125/43

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M0013979: Bavarian infant feeding bottle, Bavarian, 17th-18th century. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced January 2022: Pewter feeding bottle, Bavarian, 17thC-18thC

Description

Bavarian feeding bottle made of pewter, from the 17th-18th century. The item was purchased at auction by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and given the accession number A173319. It is not held by Wellcome Collection.

Publication/Creation

May 1955

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 8.3 x 10.8 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the accession index cards which provide an entry for the item: acc. number A173319 (image 289)

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Notes

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.

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