Apothecary bottles

Part of a large batch of handmade and distressed reproduction labels for a collection of older bottles.

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Apothecary bottles

Finished up a large batch of apothecary bottles with labels, just in time for the show this weekend.

-Sold out for now-



Apothecary candles

Our new 12 ounce jar candles for this season... now in a French apothecary style package.

(and just in case you prefer the Laboratoire jars from last year,

 we did a batch of those too.)

 

 

 

 

Curiosity got the better of me...

Sold.

We're packing up for this weekend's show, and until then I wasn't planning on posting any more pictures. But seeing this guy sitting patiently waiting to be packed up, I had to take a quick picture.

One of my curiosities under a glass cloche, available this weekend.

Hope you can make it.

Pharmacy cupboard

Since I'm getting so much flack about not posting new work,

 a small glazed pharmacy cupboard in dark, warm grey.

So there.

Seriously though, I do have a LOT in the works, and will be posting that soon.

Apothecary bottles and labels

Some of the apothecary bottles and jars I've been working on lately. I'm hoping to take some better photos of them once I get my new camera, but for now I had to get them packed up before they met with disaster. (Seems every shelf and flat space in the studio had a bottle on it.) So for now, here are a few pre-photos.

Many more coming.

From Apothecary to Wunderkammer...

black pool

Le Petit Musee de Lou

fine art america

Le Petit Musee de Lou

new urban habitat

Le petit musee de Lou

It's no secret that I love anything to do with early apothecary, natural history, cabinet of curiosities...so when I come across great photographs like these of the things I love, I have no choice but to post them.

Beautiful, no?

Labels

Just a few of the reproduction labels I make now and then. The "Old London Dock" rum label is actually one I made for our own bottle of rum...so you can't have it! The "Mead" label is on a large wavy glass bottle, about 16" tall x 4" diameter, and is $27.

All the bottles in the lower picture have sold, but I will be doing more.  As always, click to enlarge.
Update: To see some of my newer labels, click here .

Pharmacy lamp

I recently found this lamp at a store, broken in half and in shiny-lacquered brass. I bought it thinking that I could use some of the parts, but instead changed its form a bit and gave it an aged zinc paint finish. $5 and a couple of hours work for what is now one of my favorite lamps!

9 drawer apothecary cupboard

detail

My reproduction of an early apothecary cupboard, with drawers for Rottenstone, Ground Allspice, Epsom Salts & Camphor, Ground Cinnamon, Alum, Cloves, Chocolate, Pepper and Sulphur. So many things about the original appealed to me. First, the fact that none of the drawers are either square or the same size...made me wonder which came first, the case or the drawers. Judging by the fact that several of the drawers had holes from previous knobs, some of which are way off-center, I would guess that it was originally made up at least partially of reused drawers from some earlier piece, and a case made to contain them. The outside case is the only part of this entire piece that is square. All of the drawers and the dividers between them are a little off-kilter, and several thicknesses of wood were used, making it necessary to do the joinery by hand. I always love in early signs and pieces like this that were likely made 'by the user-for the user', there didn't seem to be any need for measuring, letter spacing etc. If space ran out when painting a word, the rest was squeezed in somewhere or omitted altogether. It's also interesting to notice that the drawers for Chocolate and Cinnamon are much more distressed than the others, having contained more popular items.
My version is made of all new solid pine. The case joined with hand-cut dovetails, back is wide pine boards, drawers have hand chamfered panel bottoms. All nails are antique square nails and knobs are aged cast metal, with some slightly different than others. Heavily aged inside and out, and I have lightly scented some of the drawers, ie. Cloves, Cinnamon, Pepper etc.  Dimensions excl. knobs are approximately, W34.5" x H24" x D12.25". Click photos to enlarge.          Sold.