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Windrose
    • Setting:
      Room XIV
    • Maker:
      unknown
    • Date:
      late 18th cent.
    • Materials:
      scagliola
    • Dimensions:
      diameter 800 mm
    • Inventory:
      3728
    • Windrose (Inv. 3728)

Polychrome scagliola disk with a windrose subdivided into 32 directions. The division is based on the eight principal winds.

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