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A mid 19th century
French apothecary container for Artemisia Absinthium
with gold leaf surrounds. A bitter herb, the oil
of which is dark green/blue in colour and contains
many active constituents. The extracts Absinthol,
absinthic acid, and the bitter glucoside absinthin are
used in the making of the absinthe liquor which was
popular in late 19th century France among the Bohemian
set of Parisian artists and writers. Van Gogh and
Oscar Wilde were said to be devotees, and absinthe was
also supposed to have been the undoing of Henri de
Toulouse-Lautrec ("art, alcohol and absinthe"). In
addition to being alcoholic it was hallucinogenic,
although the legendary psychoactive properties of the
"Green Fairy" may have been exaggerated.
Dimensions: height 200 mm max diameter 88 mm |
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