Objects
Ladies spectacles
SPECTACLES
spectacles
Mid-Late 20th c.
plastic; glass
2021.490
SPECTACLES
spectacles
Mid-Late 20th c.
plastic; glass
Ladies spectacles. Black plastic frame. Narrow, bowed bridge with same-colour integral pads to inner rims. Swept-back lugs. Thick triple charnier (five-barrel) high joints, horizontally pinned to lug and sides. Sinuous drop-end sides with textured inner surface to ends. Slightly upswept oval eye rims, glazed with glass prescription bifocal segment lenses.
2021.490
Gift of Mr Colin Butterworth, 2021