Camera Obscura in the form of an Eye

Hammer Price
€4,320
incl. Buyer's Premium

Estimate
€5,000 – 6,000

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Condition

B+

Manufacture Year

c.1880

Product number

AI_10_15777

very rare and beautiful scientific demonstration model made of lacquered brass, the brass sphere contains lens, iris and cornea with painted eyelids and skin cast, on the other side the extendible eye-piece with transparent paper on which an inverse picture can be seen, adjustable convex or concave lenses for correction of myopia and hyperopia on front, height c. 21.5cm