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XX.16 Matrasses
Maker: unknown
Date:18th-19th cent.
Materials:glass
Dimensions:height 280 mm, 259 mm
Current inventory:1922, 1910
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Glass matrasses: the larger one is white, spherical, and flared, with internal frosting; the second is green. The instrument's special shape made it easier to prepare solutions of salts. Both have traces of an unidentified substance at the bottom (contents altered by 1966 Arno flood). Provenance: Lorraine collections.

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