Un fournisseur des apothicaireries du Lyonnais au XVIIe siècle : Toine Cavet, son atelier et ses mortiers de bronze

Bronze mortar bowls were essential elements for the apothecaries of the Ancien régime. They are also remarkable works of art in terms of their decoration and their variety. Several examples of these mortars kept by old pharmacy dispensers in the south of Burgundy or the regions around Lyons carry the hallmark of a mysterious bronze founder, ‘Toine Cavet’, also the founder of some holy water stoups. An in-depth study of these productions allows us to date these objects to the first half of the seventeenth century and to locate the workshop somewhere in Lyons, or nearby