- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- A pair of cymbals with leather thongs. [DCF Court Team 7/2/2003]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector Maurice Vidal Portman
- PRM source Maurice Vidal Portman
- PRM source Oxford University Museum of Natural History
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1886
- Date collected
- By 1886
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 12/1886, uncertain Transferred: 12/1886, uncertain
- Materials and processes
- Material Brass Metal, Material Animal Leather Skin, Process Cast, Process Perforated
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 113 mm, Height: max 22 mm, Height: max 22 mm, Diameter: max 117 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1886.15.15.1 Accession number: 1886.15.15.2
Search terms: Music, Musical Instrument, Cymbals
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