East - Luneville - Early 19th Century - Apothecary - Pair Of Pillboxes

EASTERN FAIENCE
LUNEVILLE
Early 19th Century - circa 1830
APOTHECARY

Pair of Pillboxes Pair of baluster-shaped earthenware pillboxes on pedestals
Polychrome decoration of palm and flower cartouches with phylacteries

''SAPO STARKEI'' for one.
This is most likely ''Starkey'', that is to say George Starkey (1628–1665),
for a chemical-pharmaceutical preparation attributed to George Starkey's recipe,
used as a medicinal or alchemical soap.

''PILULAE BECKERI'' for the other.
This phylactery refers to pills composed according to the recipe of Dr. Johann Jacob Becher (or Beeker), 1635–1682,
based on purgative or mercurial substances, intended to “cleanse the body of bad humors”
according to the galenic and chemical medicine of the time.

Height: 14 cm

Very slight chips from use

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