crystal ball
- Museum number
- SLCups.232
- Description
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Rock crystal ball.
- Production date
- 17th Century (? unknown and associated with Dee later in BM)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 5.20 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Sir Hans Sloane’s ‘Miscellanea’ catalogue is a bound volume in Central Archives containing seven separate catalogues: ‘Miscellanies’, ‘Antiquities’, ‘Seals’, ‘Pictures’, ‘Mathematical Instruments’, ‘Agate Handles’ and ‘Agate Cups, Bottles, Spoons’. Each contains numbered entries that list and describe objects collected by Sloane between the 1680s and 1750s. Each catalogue begins with object number one.
Text from Sloane Miscellanea catalogue: Miscellanea Agate Cups, Bottles, Spoons 232 "232. A large chrystall ball."
- Location
- On display (G1/fc20)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2016 11 Jan- 22 Jul, London, Royal College of Physicians, Scholar, courtier, magician: the lost library of John Dee.
1997 30 May-7 Sep, Czech Republic, Prague, Prague Castle, Rudolph II and Prague
1980 15 Mar-28 Sep, Italy, Florence, Instituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Florence and Medicean Tuscany
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- SLCups.232
- Additional IDs
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Sloane Miscellanea Catalogue number: 232 (Agate Cups, Bottles, Spoons)
