410 - A sumptuous travel apothecary

A sumptuous travel apothecary Comprising a small ruby glass goblet, four hexagonal ruby glass bottles with silver mounts, three gilt cylindrical boxes with gadrooned slip lids, two medicine spoons and a small vermeil funnel. Housed in the original tortoiseshell case with old silk lining and a small drawer. The lid finely inlaid with mother-of-pearl depicting two putti as physicians within an oval foliate reserve with acanthus scrolls, one holding a test tube. Above them, two flying putti with a scroll inscribed “Morbum Noscere Curationis Principium.” (“To recognise the disease is the beginning of the cure.”) Unmarked. Case height 7.4; width 12.2; depth 9.5 cm. South German, late 17th C. This lot contains organic material that does not permit the export of this lot into non-EU countries. Literature Cf. bottles in a travelling set by Tobias Baur, Augsburg, c. 1690, illustrated in Seling 1980, nos. 559, 560. Another example in the catalogue Silber auf Reisen, Fulda 1991, no. 43. For ruby glass, see also Dedo v. Kersenbrock-Krosigk, Rubinglas des ausgehenden 17. und des 18. Jahrhunderts, Mainz 2001.