Antique Apothecary Bottle Set.

Picture a cunning-folk's pantry by candlelight: rows of small glass vials, each labeled in a shorthand only the keeper could fully read. This set brings five of them to your own shelf.

The bottles stand eight to twelve centimeters tall, in aged amber and cobalt glass, hand-blown with the faint bubbles and slight lean that a machine mold never quite produces. No two lean or bubble in quite the same way, a small signature of the hand that blew them. Each is corked and labeled in an old druggist's script, Tincture, Aqua, Sal and the like, and arrives empty.

Bottles like these once lined every chemist's counter and cunning-folk's pantry, holding tinctures and rather less nameable things side by side. These are artisan-made reproductions rather than genuine antiques, hand-blown to evoke the older form.

Details

• 5 hand-blown bottles, 8 to 12 cm tall
• Aged amber and cobalt glass, corked
• Labeled in old druggist's script; arrive empty
• Artisan reproductions, purely decorative

How to use

Fill them with dried herbs, bath salts or small stones, or leave them empty where the labels can be read. They group well on a windowsill or a bathroom shelf, five small shapes at different heights and shades of glass. They are decorative only and not intended to hold food, drink or medicine. Sold as a curiosity; no medical or scientific claims are made. A little apothecary of your own.