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Lens with mount
    • Setting:
      Room IX
    • Maker:
      unknown
    • Date:
      16th cent.
    • Materials:
      rock crystal, wood
    • Dimensions:
      lens diameter 60 mm, height 182 mm
    • Inventory:
      2586
    • Lens with mount (Inv. 2586)

Biconcave diverging lens mounted in a wooden ring with a finely turned handle. In the old inventories it is described as "said to be that of Leo X" since a celebrated painting by Raphael shows Pope Leo X with a similar lens in his hands.