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Mounted glass cone
    • Setting:
      Room XI
    • Maker:
      unknown
    • Date:
      second half 18th cent.
    • Materials:
      glass, wood, brass
    • Dimensions:
      cone diameter 66 mm, height 400 mm
    • Inventory:
      771
    • Mounted glass cone (Inv. 771)

Glass cone mounted in a large wooden ring. The ring is hinged on a brass fork fixed to a turned wooden base. Directing a beam of light on the vertex of the cone produces a round light spectrum, simulating a rainbow.