optical toy

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Object Details

Catalogue Status

Research in Progress

Description

Game of light

Credit Line

Museum purchase through gift of Mary Hearn Greims and George A. Hearn and from the Misses Hewitt Fund

Date

ca. 1780

Accession Number

1937-18-1-a,b

Restrictions & Rights

CC0

Type

toys & games

Decorative Arts

optical toy

Dimensions

H x W x D: 78.7 x 71.1 x 43.2 cm (31 x 28 x 17 in.)

manufactured in

Italy

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection

Product Design and Decorative Arts Department

Data Source

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Metadata Usage

CC0

Link to Original Record

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4ac7b7a94-8b39-4b70-b300-fb44bd668dd8

Record ID

chndm_1937-18-1-a_b

optical toy

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