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Carter No.: 123

Handlist description: Parts of portable pavilion. (see also 95b)

Card/Transcription No.: 123-08


No. 123, 2 cross-bars from portable pavilion.

Scale 0 5 10 15 20 25

<> 72.6 4.6 4.5 12.5 15.5 23.5 26.5 35 38 46.5 49.5 57.5 60.5 69 4.6 bronze collars = back bar gesso gesso-gilt (alternate) <> holes pierced thus note 5 attachments

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<> Restoration broken end 83 3.5 20 26 21.5 24.5 32.5 35.5 44.5 47.5 56.5 59.5 68 71 broken end Restauration = Front bar bronze collar wrenched off from end and stolen Note 6 attachments

<> 6 14 26.5 28 31.5 diam 2.75 diam 7.5 holes pierced Max diam 7.5 diam 4.7 Collar of gold missing only wood core remains sheet gold on gesso on wood core diam 3.3 red leather gesso-sheet gold hole pierced petals of ivory stained brown (inner petals white) calix gold stalks ebony

<> diam 3.3 diam 2.9 9 sheet-gold gesso on wood core red leather

201

Groups 430, 465 = 4 slender columns of wood decorated with thin sheet-gold, red-leather, and ivory and ebony lotus flowers and buds. Length of columns 201 cms, and details as per diagram above.

Card no. 123-08 relating to Carter no. 123
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