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so-called "puzzle ball" or "wonder ball"

sphere carved from a single piece of ivory, containing several concentric, movable, open-worked spheres, attached chain also worked from the same piece of ivory

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Nordfriesland Museum. Nissenhaus
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Dimensions
Gesamt: Höhe: 16 cm (ohne Aufhängung); Breite: 13 cm
Material/Technique
ivory (material)
Object genre
Items produced for sale (to exogenous and indigenous people)
Valuables (emical), status objects and means of payment/exchange
Objects of artistic expression
Current location
Nordfriesland Museum. Nissenhaus Husum
Inventory number
K 3914

Provenance and sources

when
19th century
where
China

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