Cup or bocal 18th cty in apothecary moulded glass

Blown glass leeches or jar, 18th century. This cup is blown glass, its 18th century, it's a leeches bowl, there's a ledge that keeps leeches out. H485. You will notice 3 accidents, 2 on the edge of the ledge and 1 impact on the glass. Scratches to report. Sold as it is. The leech jar and jar. The use and preservation of leeches leads to the creation of a container suitable for critters. The classic and old leech pot is usually a small ceramic or metal container (tin), 10 to 15 cm high. It has small ventilation holes on the upper part of the body and sometimes on the lid to keep the leeches alive. It is often spherical, flat-bottomed, flat or bulging lid, screwed or bayoneted. The lid is often topped with a vertical ring to grasp the pot easily. There is another type of pot more commonly called a leech jar. It is always made of glass and takes the form of a globular aquarium on a pedestal, with a wide ledge that allowed to attach, by means of a link, a paper (fat) pierced with holes to prevent the animals from leaving, while allowing them to breathe anyway. Some jars had a fully removable glass lid that attached itself to metal hinges. The glass is always transparent and sometimes coloured for english pots. The body is eventually decorated: the decoration is engraved on the glass. You will see botanical subjects such as ferns or flowers from the fields. As leeches found their place in the shelves of the dispensaries, they exist decorated in the manner of pharmacy pots, I.e. With a cartridge on which reads the name of the product contained in the jar, the rim being sometimes beautifully adorned with rinsings. Some of them are labelled "hirudines": hirudine is an anticoagulant secreted naturally secreted by the leech. By extension, it means leeches. For the state thank you for detailing the photos. Photos are an integral part of the description. Size: Height: 28 cm. High diameter: 19.5 cm. Foot diameter: 14.5 cm.

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