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Glazed Earthenware Retort, by Josiah Wedgwood, English, Early 19th Century

Inventory Number 37798


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.37798

Item type
Object
Physical material
Earthenware
Object type
Retort
Dimensions
Height: 242mm Width: 91mm Depth: 45mm Weight: 142g
Inventory No
37798

Description

Cream earthenware retort made by Wedgewood, this kind of apparatus would have been used in a chemical laboratory in the 19th Century.