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mortar

Dateearly 20th Century
Inventory Number2004-1-0508a
ClassificationMortar and Pestle
Subject
    Maker American
    User Edwin H. Land 1909 - 1991
    Associate Name Polaroid Corporation 1937-present
    User Rowland Institute founded 1980
    Cultural Region
      Place of Origin
        Dimensions17.8 × 14.5 × 14.5 cm (7 × 5 11/16 × 5 11/16 in.)
        Material
          DescriptionWooden mortar and pestle. Mortar is cracked.
          Signedunsigned
          Curatorial RemarksRowland Institute - Case 6, shelf C, left (#51)
          ProvenanceEdwin H. Land, Rowland Institute, Cambridge, MA; gift to CHSI by the Edwin H. Land Family, 2004.
          mortar and pestle, white earthenware
          mortar and pestle, white earthenware
          Thomas Maddock's Sons Company
          Date: 1890-1920
          Object number: 4780
          Image Not Available for pestle
          pestle
          American
          Date: early 20th Century
          Object number: 2004-1-0508b
          mortar & pestle
          mortar & pestle
          American
          Date: late 19th-mid 20th Century
          Object number: 1997-1-1126
          mortar and pestle
          mortar and pestle
          American
          Date: 1870-1920
          Object number: 4777
          mortar and pestle, white earthenware
          mortar and pestle, white earthenware
          Thomas Maddock's Sons Company
          Date: 1890-1920
          Object number: 4781
          mortar and pestle
          mortar and pestle
          Coors Ceramic Company
          Date: early 20th-mid 20th Century
          Object number: 1997-1-1961
          mortar and pestle
          mortar and pestle
          Coors Ceramic Company
          Date: 1920-1950
          Object number: 4778
          wood pestle
          wood pestle
          American
          Date: early 20th Century
          Object number: 1996-1-0079
          blowpipe set for chemical analysis
          blowpipe set for chemical analysis
          T. H. Letcher
          Date: circa 1889
          Accessories: a bottle of barium hydroxide (4510a) may have been part this set.
          Object number: 4510b
          earthenware mortar
          earthenware mortar
          Thomas Maddock's Sons Company
          Date: 1882-1929
          Object number: 4779
          agate mortar and pestle
          agate mortar and pestle
          Date: circa 1895
          Object number: 1997-1-1741a,b
          chemistry card file
          chemistry card file
          Art Steel Sales Company
          Date: mid 20th Century
          Object number: 1997-1-1600