Beschreibung:

A RARE SILVER-MOUNTED EBONISED MEDICINE CHEST CONTAINING SILVER-GILT AND SILVER-GILT MOUNTED BOTTLES, CANISTERS, BOXES AND MEDICAL INSTRUMENTS maker's mark of Albrecht von Horn, Augsburg, circa 1630, also struck with later Austrian duty marks of 1809, two pieces Vienna, circa 1840 The rectangular chest with two doors to the front and with hinged cover, the interior of the doors with silver-mounted flower-filled urns enhanced with gilt-metal corn husks to the corners, the chest lined with light brown-velvet to the cover and upper shelf above six drawers mounted with cast-silver foliate handles, containing thirty-six silver-gilt, silver-gilt mounted and parcel-gilt canisters, bottles, boxes and various medical implements 39cm (15in.) high x 28cm (11in.) wide x 32cm deep contents; - six silver-gilt cylindrical canisters applied with grotesque masks and with circular domed covers with ball finials - seventeen glass bottles (one wood and covered with foil) in various sizes, applied with silver-gilt neck-mounts and screw-off caps, and with inscribed paper labels - a silver-gilt two-handled basin, of shaped oval form with lobed body - a pair of silver-gilt mounted scissors, the handles cast with demi-figures and foliage a silver tongue spatula or scraper - another parcel-gilt spatula or scraper, terminating at one end in an arrow-head - a silver-gilt mounted scalpel - a parcel-gilt syringe - a parcel-gilt catheter - a circular parcel-gilt bowl with turned ebony handle - a circular parcel-gilt sieve with turned ebony handle - two parcel-gilt circular pill boxes with reeded lift-off covers later added objects: - a silver tapering cylindrical beaker, Vienna, circa 1850 - a circular funnel, Vienna, circa 1850 (680gr. weighable silver)