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Matrass
    • Setting:
      Room XVII
    • Maker:
      unknown
    • Date:
      18th-19th cent.
    • Materials:
      glass
    • Dimensions:
      height 280 mm
    • Inventory:
      1922
    • Matrass (Inv. 1922)

White glass matrass, spherical, and flared, with internal frosting. The instrument's special shape made it easier to prepare solutions of salts. It has traces of an unidentified substance at the bottom (contents altered by 1966 Arno flood). Provenance: Lorraine collections.