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<p>This painting shows the equipment and procedures involved in making a medicinal product, probably "water of endives".  
</p><p>In the center of the composition, a man pours a liquid into storage jars.  He is  surrounded by copper bowls and blue vessels. A large bag, containing realistically rendered endive plants, is shown in front of him at the bottom center of the painting. More endives are shown in a bowl on the left and one on the corner of the central table.  To the left, in the shadows, a boy or man delivers raw materials. A large press with a vertical screw can be seen in the shadows at the right.  More prominently to the right, the medicinal water is prepared by means of distillation, using a copper still with a Moor's head device and a furnace.  
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Believed to have been done by an artist close to Carlo Magini.</div>
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Unknown author<span style="display: none;">Unknown author</span>,  Italian School</div>
17<sup>th</sup> century <div style="display: none;">date QS:P,+1650-00-00T00:00:00Z/7</div> <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109877905#P571" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" style="vertical-align: text-top" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20"></a>
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