Crystal model set illustrating Rome de l'Isle's Crystallographie

Made:: 1783-1850 in Europe

Alabaster crystal model set contained within four boxes with drawers, the boxes designed to look like books, unsigned, Europe 1783-1850. The 'volumes' spines are removable and each contain six drawers of model crystals, and the models are each numbered by hand.

Details

Category:: Experimental Chemistry

Object Number:: 1982-1073

Materials:: paper, cardboard, fabric, ivory and alabaster

Measurements:: each box: 200 mm x 90 mm x 160 mm, 0.456kg

type:: model - representation

credit:: Quaritch, B.

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