M0016572: An Alorca faience or majolica dish showing three medical scenes

Previous title, replaced March 2022: An Alorca faience or majolica dish.

Photograph of a dish showing three scenes: a physician taking a pulse; a doctor examining a leg lesion; and a lady with a prescription. Raised above the dish are three receptacles said to be for ointment, plaster and tweezers., The photograph was sent to the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in January 1958 by the owner of the dish with a view to selling it.

1958

1 photograph glass plate negative; 8.3 x 10.8 cm

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.