As a personal tribute to alchemy as a discipline and what it symbolizes (union between theory and practice), I have extracted the mold of one of these laboratory pieces to reproduce its shape in ceramic containers. I also developed the mold of the Erlenmeyer flask to perform the contemporary homonym to the emblem of alchemy in antiquity. In this case, the Erlenmeyer flask was designed by the German chemist Emil Erlenmeyer in 1861, which has become the central symbol of modern chemistry. 

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