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Prototype for ladies spectacles
SPECTACLES
spectacles
Redfern, Mavis
Europe:
1970s?
plastic

Prototype ladies spectacle frame as supplied by manufacturer and modified by designer. Semi-transparent crystal plastic frame with red laminate plastic trim to outer and upper rims, lugs and outside of sides up to the bend. Narrow pad bridge, contiguous with slightly dipping browline rim featuring asymmetric barley sugar twist above left eye. Offset lugs. Embedded high joints. Reinforced drop-end sides with colour fading towards clear, slightly flattened tips. Large eye rims, unglazed.


2014.230

Gift of Mr David Redfern, 2014



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