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Goldoni-type Venetian sun spectacles
SPECTACLES
sunglasses
Europe: Italy, Venice
c.1790
horn; glass
DBL: 24 mm; eye: 45 mm; front: 60 mm x 135 mm; side: 132 mm

Spectacles. Pale horn frame Arched bridge. Thick centre joints. Fenestrated, flared sides. Large round eyes and green-tinted lenses. (Left lens cracked). Drilled holes in outer rims of eyeframes to take silk side shields (missing).


1999.5271

Gift of B. S. Dickens, 1945



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