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

Inventory Number 49504


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.49504

Item type
Object
Physical material
Earthenware
Object type
Retort
Dimensions
Height: 392mm Width: 175mm Depth: 95mm Weight: 613g
Inventory No
49504

Description

Large cream earthenware retort with a stopper at the top, made by Wedgewood, this kind of apparatus would have been used in a chemical laboratory in the 19th Century.