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• Auction House:
  Cordy's
• Sale Name:
  February 2016 Antique & Art Auction
• Sale Date:
  16 Feb 2016 ~ 10am (NZ time) (Lots 1 - 334)
  16 Feb 2016 ~ 5pm (NZ time) (Lots 340 - 683)
• Lot #:
  77
• Lot Description:
  A large, mid-18thC blown milk-glass apothecary bottle
  cylindrical with spreading foot and small flaring mouth set with disc stopper, with painted polychrome cartouche. Inscribed with black alchemical symbol and lettering : ìAqua: CORT: ORANT:" (Aqua Corticum Aurantii [distillation of orange peel]). Both stopper and bottle shoulder etched 'VIII'. Height 190.
• Provenance:
  A 19thC London pharmacist, William Thomas Robinson, to his son by bequest, thence to his daughter our vendor.
• Estimate:
  NZ$350 - 350
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Tools of Trade

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