17th Century Florentine Apothecary Mortar Greek Marble of Thassos

Rare Pharmary of Pharmacy in Greek marble of Thassos, an original and old work.
The patina and the marble transfers are remarkable.
Thassos’ marble is a white marble, a natural stone.
Its name is inspired by the Greek island of Thassos, the island of sirens and natural swimming pools.

This rare object in an exceptional state of conservation for the time comes from a pharmacy in the city of Florence in Italy.
He is very nice.

Era: 17th century
Circa: 1650 – 1660
Dimensions: height: 21cm – 38cm diameter

Florence’s historical pharmacies represent one of the characteristic aspects of the long and rich history of the Tuscan capital.

The art of apothecaries was indeed in antiquity one of the seven major Florentine arts, recognized as such since 1266.

And the famous botanical garden, the Jardin des Simple is the third oldest in the world after that of Pisa and Padua, with its herbs, its history, its ancestral tradition of medicinal plants.

It had been created by the Medici in 1545, and between the 16th and 17th centuries, it experienced a period of great splendor because here varieties of medicinal plants were finally cultivated and studied.
Then it was the appearance of the first collections of medicine recipes was born in Florence.

This is why the first pharmaceutical workshops were born here, and it is no coincidence if in Florence there is a real “via degli apothecary” (rue des Apothecaires)