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  • Pocket case with small mortar and pestle.
  • Ancient Egyptian Kohl pot minature pestle and mortar
  • A man using a mortar and pestle, Sudan (?)
  • A man using a mortar and pestle, Sudan (?)
  • Illuminated "I": man using pestle and mortar, 13th C
  • Illuminated "P": man using pestle and mortar, 13th Century.
  • Statue of Saint of Damian represented with pestle and mortar.
  • A Chinese man standing, holding a pestle and mortar. Watercolour.
  • An ancient pestle and mortar found in Aix-les-Bains. Photograph.
  • Pigments: a water-powered multiple pestle mill for crushing madder plants. Engraving.
  • Sudan: a man grinding with a large pestle and mortar. Photograph, ca. 1920.
  • Sudan: a man grinding with a large pestle and mortar. Photograph, ca. 1920.
  • An apothecary using a pestle and mortar to make up a prescription. Coloured etching.
  • An apothecary using a pestle and mortar to make up a prescription. Coloured etching.
  • An apothecary using a pestle and mortar to make up a prescription. Coloured etching.
  • An apothecary grinding a mixture with his pestle and mortar, amidst a working town. Woodcut by Brant(?).
  • An apothecary (a man using pestle and mortar). Oil painting by a Spanish painter, 18th century.
  • An apothecary riding a velocipede (bicycle) in the form of a pestle and mortar. Coloured etching, ca. 1819.
  • A man pounding a mixture with a pestle and mortar - an emblem from a drug jar. Watercolour.
  • A man pounding tea leaves with a large pestle and mortar. Painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
  • A man pounding (?) with pestle type equipment in both hands. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.
  • Statue of Saint Damian and Saint Cosmas, represented with a bottle of urine and with a pestle and mortar.
  • A theatrical figure in a tuxedo supporting a pestle and mortar as a hat and holding a large pill. Watercolour painting.
  • A scholar/apothecary mixing a concoction with a pestle and mortar and writing down the remedy; an emblem from a drug jar. Watercolour.
  • A physician reading a recipe instructs his assistant who is mixing with a pestle and mortar. Engraving after a twelfth century manuscript.
  • Old Parr, an elderly apothecary with an extremely long beard mixing a concoction with a pestle and mortar. Pen drawing by Matthews(?), 1861(?).
  • Old Parr, an elderly apothecary with an extremely long beard mixing a concoction with a pestle and mortar. Pen drawing by Matthews(?), 1861(?).
  • Old Parr, an elderly apothecary with an extremely long beard mixing a concoction with a pestle and mortar. Pen drawing by Matthews(?), 1861(?).
  • An apothecary's apprentice in a shop mixing up a prescription in a pestle and mortar for a customer. Watercolour attributed to C. Stanfield.
  • Scientific instruments and attributes of philosophy: gyroscopes, telescope, pestle and mortar, cosmological manuals, natural history specimens etc.. Lithograph by J-B-J. Jorand, 1835.