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Chemical apparatus
    • Setting:
      Room XVII
    • Maker:
      unknown
    • Date:
      18th cent.
    • Materials:
      glass
    • Dimensions:
      length 150 mm
    • Inventory:
      1714
    • Chemical apparatus (Inv. 1714)

Two small elongated glass balls, joined by their slightly curved necks. Each ball has a small lateral glass bump. In the eighteenth century glass vessels were used to prepare combinations whose great variety reflected the growing complexity of chemical operations. Provenance: Lorraine collections.