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Unidentified Lacquered TinpLate Container, Late 19th Century

Inventory Number 41300


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.41300

Item type
Object
Provenance
Not ascertained.
Primary inscriptions
Unsigned.
Physical material
Tinplate
Dimensions
Diameter: 102mm
Inventory No
41300

Description

Black lacquered tinplate oval container with two cylindrical projections in the base, one open ans the other closed at the bottom. Three tinplate fittings at the sides suggest that this container was supported on legs. Perhaps a form of water bath?