MusEYEum Online Catalogue

Model 84 Spectacles
SPECTACLES
spectacles
Robert La Roche
Europe: Austria, Vienna
1991
metal; plastic
DBL: 21 mm; eye: 48 mm

Spectacles. Shiny yellow metal frame. Fenestrated arched bridge soldered to rims, with engraved decoration to front. Large clear silicon plastic pads attached separately to inner rims. Centre joints comprising a combination of faux amber shell acetate attached by screw and nut to metal box, leading to flat-section drop-end sides with engraved decoration on the outer surface and semi-transparent amber-coloured (imitation shell) plastic end covers. Octagonal rims, unglazed.

2015.489

Gift of Herr Robert La Roche, 2013