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Bottle with curved pouring pipe
    • Setting:
      Room XVII
    • Maker:
      unknown
    • Date:
      18th cent.
    • Materials:
      glass
    • Dimensions:
      160x310 mm
    • Inventory:
      3786
    • Bottle with curved pouring pipe (Inv. 3786)

Clear glass bottle with curved pouring pipe and a mouth with pouring lip. Contains an unidentified substance (contents altered by 1966 Arno flood). The curved pouring pipe facilitated the use of glass apparatus (glass being an easily malleable material) for chemical or spagyric operations such as distillation and cohobation. Provenance: Lorraine collections.