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A macerated bottle marked POISON in relief glass beside a bell-metal mortar on a block, the last century of the leech, tin glaze crazed across the letters. Work 10140.

The year the liner was launched: a Napier shopfront rebuilt after the shake beside a porthole window, press photograph from the period, shallow depth on a portrait lens. Work 10137.

A syringe raised against a lamp enlarged until the dots read as circles, the hundredth issue, newsprint illustration with open whites, guide lines left printed on the sheet. Work 10108.

An old fashioned glass sweating on a coaster and a highball with the bubbles still climbing in a bachelor apartment, the Eisenhower years, airbrushed advertising illustration. Work 10102.

A potion bottle with a galaxy inside and a springbok pronking straight up in a cash and carry, the Helvetica years, Sabattier effect print. Work 10033.

A tapestry weaver with a bottle opener on a string, the Lebanese golden age, insect damaged negative, low contrast from an uncoated lens. Work 10027.

Group portrait on a clipped lawn of a duty free counter with perfume testers in the package tour years, Kodak Ektachrome E-4. Work 9930.

Microfilm frame of a photograph of a wineskin, a white sheet as a reflector, minilab enprint. Work 9860.

A bottle of sauce in six colourways within a border of bare paper, a run pulled overnight, print with the motif traced by hand, stencil edge printed as a hard line. Work 9792.

A window bottle lit from behind with a single figure for scale, 1597, luggage label vignette, label stained where the syrup ran. Work 9778.

A signal room of ebonite and brass among rows of specimen jars in 1875, cutaway of a panelled interior, albumen print from a glass negative. Work 9599.

A lacrosse stick, poster style label with three flats, the one who did not stay, Kodak Panatomic-X 32. Work 9577.

Blue and black inks on one pull of a sympathetic chain beside the vertebrae, two colour letterpress in black and brick red, wood engraving printed with the text. Work 9576.

A trapeze artist's face in hot yellow in the style of a barman's head in poison lime over a poster pasted to a wall, a commission paid in advance. Work 9502.

Outside broadcast camera frame of a bottle sparkler held high in a booth and a whole floor singing one line together, the spring of 1980, push-processed grain in the shadows. Work 9490.

The last edition before quantum theory: severe clarity with nothing decorative of a distillation apparatus with a condenser beside a key lettered a to h. Work 9194.

A lattice-caged snowshoes crossed above a mantel beside a pastry stand of three tiers, the season after the staff came back, tinted lantern slide of a terrace. Work 9172.

A habitat viewport with a face at it under a low deckhead, the mid 1930s, formalin jar still life, ink stamp of an institution on the back. Work 9120.

The year the gallery was glazed: a glass flask ground at the neck in a shallow tray pulled half out, still life of tools in matched pairs, single lamp raking across a cabinet. Work 8940.

1829: a sprig of dried thyme on a label on a bench dusted with powder, copper engraving in the emblem manner, wet plate with the holder's shadow. Work 8934.

A demonstrated colour keyed cartesian diver in a stoppered jar, 1874, keyline plate with flat colour behind, plate with the guard sheet missing. Work 8919.

Zanfirico glass vase of a company-issued livery stable against a stencilled hazard band in the spring of 1941. Work 8801.

Group portrait on a clubhouse step of a faultless man in whites holding two rackets and a drink, 1979, 6x4.5 rollfilm colour. Work 8785.

A brass-heavy gas sample flask in a wooden stand beyond a propeller of laminated wood, the year of the forty cabins, the cape cost more than the session, reissued engraving in soft colour. Work 8775.

A wine locker with numbered bays under a lamp swinging in the wind in the hippie years, rushes frame, engraving on a dampened handmade sheet. Work 8741.

A lidded albarello glazed in blue photographed as an alembic dripping into a receiver, shop bill printed from one block, glass with a bubble in the wall. Work 8618.

A month with every well low: a silt-heavy tea being poured from height, telephoto shot flattening a whole crowd, oil on canvas with a warm ground. Work 8547.

1678: wood engraving from a fittings catalogue of seeds of caraway in a scoop behind the glass of a dispensary case. Work 8473.

1568: a porphyry slab with a muller behind a bottle marked POISON, photographed by daylight on a bench, hand colour brushed over a woodcut. Work 8438.

A bottle of tonic in the style of a circus of shadows against a starred blue sky, the Futurist years. Work 8433.