Pestle And Mortar Collection (page 2)

The Fat Kitchen, 1563. Creator: Pieter van der Heyden
The Fat Kitchen, 1563

Musashi: Chofu no Tamagawa, ca. 1833. ca. 1833. Creator: Ando Hiroshige
Musashi: Chofu no Tamagawa, ca. 1833

Javanese Women Preparing Rice, 1860s-70s. Creator: Unknown
Javanese Women Preparing Rice, 1860s-70s

Balarama and Krishna Fighting the Enemy, Folio from a Harivamsa (The Legend of... ca
Balarama and Krishna Fighting the Enemy, Folio from a Harivamsa (The Legend of Hari (Krishna)), ca. 1590-95

Krishna and Balarama Fighting the Enemy, Folio from a Harivamsa (The Legend of Hari (Krishna)), ca. 1590-95

Asile Imperiale de Vincennes, la pharmacie, 1858-59. Creator: Charles Negre
Asile Imperiale de Vincennes, la pharmacie, 1858-59

Wooden pestles and mortars for sale in a market, Mallorca, Spain

Aesculapius, 1852. Artist: John Leech
Aesculapius, 1852. From The Comic History of Rome, by Gilbert A A Beckett, illustrated by John Leech. [Bradbury, Agnew & Co, London, 1852]

Powder production in the Sierra de Tardienta, 1814 (1939). Artist: Francisco Goya
Powder production in the Sierra de Tardienta, 1814 (1939). From Les Chefs-D Ouevre Du Musee Du Prado. [Les Editions Holbein, Switzerland, 1939]

Newar women pounding grain, Nepal, 1936. Artist: Ewing Galloway
Newar women pounding grain, Nepal, 1936. The Newar are an indigenous people of the Kathmandu Valley. From Peoples of the World in Pictures, edited by Harold Wheeler

Doctor and servant, 13th century, (1910). The doctor wears a Phrygian cap, mantle, dalmatica with embroidered girdle and hem, and a tunic underneath. The servant wears a single tunic

I never at saw sewing so small, c1900-1950

An entertainment at Kings College Hospital, 1885. Artist: Charles Joseph Staniland
An entertainment at Kings College Hospital, 1885. Illustration from the The Graphic, (23 May 1885)

Women pounding rice, Madagascar, late 19th century. Illustration from Island of Madagascar, sites, manners and costumes, Paris

Portrait of Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, Comte de Bucquoy, (1571-1621), 1621. Artist: Peter Paul Rubens
Portrait of Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, Comte de Bucquoy, (1571-1621), 1621. Rubens, Pieter Paul (1577-1640). Found in the collection of the State Hermitage, St. Petersburg

The Herb Tea Vendor, c1725-1778 Artist: Francois Duparc
The Herb Tea Vendor, c1725-1778. Found in the collection of the Musee de Longchamps, Marseilles

The amateur chemists laboratory bench, 1860. Artist: M & N Hanhart
The amateur chemists laboratory bench, 1860. The largest item on the bench is a Liebig condenser, a piece of apparatus devised by the German chemist Justus von Liebig (1803-1873)

Chinese agriculture, 1825-1835. Top: pounding rice in a foot-operated pestle and mortar. Middle: Chinese seed drill. Bottom: Chinese plough. From Costume Antico et Moderno. (Rome, 1825-1835)

Quern for grinding corn, Neolithic
Quern for grinding coin found at a Neolithic settlement

Neolithic quern for grinding corn
A neolithic quern/pestle and mortar for grinding corn, discovered at Lemea Neolithic settlement near Paphos on Cyprus

Patisserie, 1751-1777. A print from the Encyclopedie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonne des Sciences, des Arts et des Metiers by Diderot & d Alembert, 1751-1777. Private Collection

French druggist and grocer, 16th century. In the foreground a boy uses a pestle and mortar to grind ingredients. In the right background a balance for weighing goods hangs over the counter

The Druggists Shop, 1568. Artist: Jost Amman
The Druggists Shop, 1568. The druggist is grinding down ingredients with a pestle and mortar. Illustration by Jost Amman for his The Book of Trades. (Frankfurt am Main, 1568)

The Apothecarys Prayer!!, July 30, 1801. July 30, 1801. Creator: Thomas Rowlandson
The Apothecarys Prayer!!, July 30, 1801

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