Set of five regular Platonic Solids in box

Made:: 1568-1691

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Details

Category:: King George III

Object Number:: 1927-2065/7

Materials:: ivory, shagreen and silver

Measurements:: bodies: diameter 25 mm
box: length 130 mm
box: width 30 mm
box: height 30 mm

type:: platonic solids

credit:: King’s College London

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set of five ivory regular Platonic solids: tetrahedron (edge: 20 mm)

set of five ivory regular Platonic solids: tetrahedron (edge: 20 mm), cube (edge: 15 mm), octahedron (edge: 18 mm), icosahedron (edge: 13 mm), dodecahedron (edge: 9 mm)