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Lady's telescopes
    • Setting:
      Room XVIII
    • Maker:
      unknown
    • Date:
      second half 18th cent.
    • Materials:
      wood, ivory
    • Dimensions:
      150x120x490 mm
    • Inventory:
      3725
    • Lady's telescopes (Inv. 3725)
    • Lady's telescopes (Inv. 3725)

Oval ivory box housing cylindrical vases that probably contained beauty creams and powders. The ivory lid supports an ivory and wood column surmounted by a cup. Inside the column is a small telescope. A small ivory column, next to the first, houses another telescope, whose objective lens is missing. Both are low magnification telescopes, one with a diverging eyepiece, the other with a converging one.

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