Description
One of two disused lengths (the other 86650) of egg-and-scroll carving from the woodwork of the bookcases that were formerly in the Picture Gallery (Upper Reading Room) of the Bodleian Library; the cases were acquired and restored by the Museum in 1951, and are now used as display cases.
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