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A referenced leyden jar with inner and outer foil between two facing pages of text, 1883, the plate was numbered out of order, two colour printing with red for the rays. Work 10249.

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.

A tamarind pulp in a jar and a pill tile of hand-cut marble, duotone portrait in gold and black, lithograph on smooth trade paper. Work 10084.

Printed label with a pestle device of a stoneware syrup jar with a label under the shadow of a hanging bunch, 1726, chalk rubbed into a rough tooth. Work 10067.

A quartz viewport ringed with bolts and a viperfish preserved in a glass jar, floodlit viewport photograph, mimeographed station list page. Work 9980.

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 duplicated snarling jar of leeches in clear water, 1664, colour guide marked with ink codes, enamel chipped at the rim. Work 9564.

A sweet shop poster with doubled jars across a delivery pile of folded sheets in the night shift's last job, guillotine cut through the border. Work 9397.

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.

Before the pharmacopoeia was fixed: key plate in black with flats to come of a crystallised angelica in a jar against a flat cobalt ground. Work 8954.

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.

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

Wide plate with the subject to one side of a broken jar spilling dry grain, scratch running the length of a frame, screen print in three flat colours. Work 8744.

A viperfish preserved in a glass jar, deck working photograph, the cook sent tea down to the winch, platinum print with long tonal range. Work 8564.

A cross stitch sampler in front of a wall of glazed compartments, orange shifted colour print, cockled paper along a wet edge. Work 8543.

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

A figure numbered gas jar inverted over water, eighteen months of animation, blackboard chalk over a printed outline. Work 8237.

An evening class foliate nasturtium trailing over a path edge, the Pictish years, astronomical lantern slide, glaze pooled at the foot of the jar. Work 8123.

The years of the poison book: tin glaze crazed across the letters of a bundle of valerian root tied with twine on a bare board floor. Work 8082.

Dark robes against pale limestone of a measure jar used for every share, medium format chrome in dust haze, gate weave during a long hold. Work 7888.

Mosaic glazing of small coloured pieces of narcissus bulbs in a paper bag within a roundel of clear glass, cylinder blown muff glass, dot screen coarse enough to count. Work 7664.

A cheaply repeated soup tin repeated in six clashing colourways beside a rocket tiled in green and pink, the second pull, repeat print with every cell recoloured. Work 7660.

Crude woodcut coloured by a reader of a collodion bottle with a brush in it, sheet browned where a shelf touched it, salt print through a thin negative. Work 7569.

A miniature forest under a bell jar, soft light, moss. Work 7459.

A brine-stiffened jar of fireflies, the Sloane Ranger years, Eastmancolor print gone warm. Work 7296.

Soft canvas against polished copper of a circle of lamp light on the sea floor, 6x7 colour transparency, daylight only at four fathoms. Work 7235.

A glass jar of dried cantharides under the shadow of a hanging bunch, 1633, oil on panel in the Dutch manner, sepia faded to a warm grey. Work 7224.

Colour supplement page art of a chemist's window bill with slipped labels with the grey built from three plates, the quarter the press was overdue a service. Work 7217.

An acrid flake of white arsenic in a phial hung from a beam to dry, before the pharmacopoeia was fixed, transfer printed lettering on tin glaze. Work 7074.

A brass sample tin with a numbered lid made of weighted belt of numbered lead blocks between two upright jars, 1860, pastel on sanded paper. Work 6999.