A fine and rare matched pair of Georgian apothecary bottles, hand-blown in dark olive-green glass with applied lip and short neck, retaining their original gilded and black-enameled labels: “T.R. ALOES C.” and “S. FLAMAND.”
 
Each bottle exhibits the characteristic irregularities of early glassmaking — subtle air bubbles and variations in tone.
 
Such bottles were used by 18th- and early 19th-century chemists and apothecaries to store tinctures and compounds. The abbreviated Latin labels identify their former contents: Tinctura Aloes Composita (a medicinal tincture of aloes) and Spiritus Flamandi (a distilled preparation, likely aromatic or medicinal in nature).
 
Beautifully proportioned and rich in patina, these bottles are excellent examples of period pharmaceutical glassware.
 
31 cm x 30 cm