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Chinese Scribes
REPRODUCTION IMAGES COLLECTION
print
Bausch & Lomb Optical Company
North America: USA, New York, Rochester
Post 1936
card

Reproduction print in (faded) colour of a 20th century painting, imaginatively showing Medieval Chinese scribes wearing spectacles tied around their ears with cords. Text caption at bottom relating to spurious stories of Marco Polo discovering spectacles in use in China in 1275.


2021.194

Gift of Mr Colin Butterworth, 2021



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