Scarce and Beautiful Early -Mid 19th Century Treen Apothecary Pill Silverer working decoy Hand-painted

Hand-painted

please share

To me it's quite a warm and tender thing

With the added delight of a partial glimpse of the face of the player at left

I'm a sucker for Peonies

Scarce and Beautiful Early -Mid 19th Century Treen Apothecary Pill Silverer working decoy Hand-paintedA very happy find amid a week of searching but not finding a whole lot, this is an early mid 19th century pill silverer. I didn't know its function when I found it, but have learned that these were used by apothecaries, for the purpose of "silvering" pills: they would moisturize pills with acacia and then put them inside one of these, with silver leaf inside, gently rolling the pills around to coat them and make them ready for storage in a bottle. And