Pestle. Bat-shaped wood and ceramic pestle; handle is wood and has clubbed end; grinding head is stone. A pestle is a blunt, roughly cylindrical implement. It is used with a mortar for crushing, grinding, and blending pharmaceutical or culinary preparations. Mortar and pestles are tools that have been in use, world-wide, since the Stone Age and ...
Created:
1801 - 1900?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Pestle. Bat-shaped wood and porcelain pestle; handle is wood and has clubbed end; grinding head is Wedgwood-style "biscuit porcelain." Includes manufacturer markings:"2." A pestle is a blunt, roughly cylindrical implement. It is used with a mortar for crushing, grinding, and blending pharmaceutical or culinary preparations. Mortar and pestles ar...
Created:
1801 - 1900?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Bedpan. Large, round ceramic bedpan with mustard yellow and brown glaze; hollow cylindrical protrusion with large round opening at distal end. Bedpans are used by individuals unable to leave their bed to relieve themselves due to illness. The hollow handle was used to empty the contents of the bedpan after use.
Created:
1750 - 1800?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Mortar and pestle. Small, cylindrical ceramic two-handled mortar with flared lip; blue and white delftware decoration with hand-painted cobalt blue "blue onion" pattern and horizontal cobalt blue stripes circumscribing body of mortar; small, cylindrical pestle with clubbed ends and blue-and-white decoration. Includes manufacturer markings:"Rx" ...
Contributor:
Squibb Corporation, Delft, Netherlands)
Created:
1960 - 1989?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Inhaler. Rectangular cardboard box with missing top; reverse conical ceramic inhaler body with large opening at top and smaller opening at rounded tip; a bundle of textile material is packed into the inhaler toward the tip; a small circle of metal wire is laid on a small ceramic ledge above the textile. Includes manufacturer markings on box: "SP...
Contributor:
Marney Products Co (Chicago, Illinois)
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Mortar and pestle. Bowl-shaped ceramic mortar with small, open, triangular spout at rim; cylindrical ceramic pestle with clubbed end at grinding head. A mortar is a bowl-shaped receptacle and a pestle is a blunt, roughly cylindrical implement. Together they are used for crushing, grinding, and blending pharmaceutical or culinary preparations. Mo...
Created:
1900 - 1970?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Ceramic container. Ceramic container with equal sized lid and base; design is of 10 joined cylinders painted in red, green and blue and decorated with all-over honeycombed designs; container sits on a carved wooden stand with 4 feet; interior of compartments is painted with a celadon glaze.
Created:
1736 - 1796?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Pestle. Small, bat-shaped ceramic pestle with clubbed end at handle. A pestle is a blunt, roughly cylindrical implement. It is used with a mortar for crushing, grinding, and blending pharmaceutical or culinary preparations. Mortar and pestles are tools that have been in use, world-wide, since the Stone Age and since the 13th century have been sy...
Created:
1850 - 1950?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.