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Wooden torture chair with 12 steel blades, China, 1701-1900 Despite its unpleasant associations, this chair is ornately decorated with foliage, scrolls and the heads of mythological sea monsters called Macara. It is made from wood with 12 steel blades in the arm, back and foot rests and seat. The chair is one of many torture instruments purchased by Henry Wellcome. Medical Photographic Library |
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Short title | L0058388 Wooden torture chair with 12 steel blades, China |
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Author | Wellcome Library, London |
Headline | L0058388 Wooden torture chair with 12 steel blades, China |
Copyright holder | Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Image title | L0058388 Wooden torture chair with 12 steel blades, China
Credit: Science Museum, London. Wellcome Images images@wellcome.ac.uk http://wellcomeimages.org Wooden torture chair with 12 steel blades, China, 1701-1900 Despite its unpleasant associations, this chair is ornately decorated with foliage, scrolls and the heads of mythological sea monsters called Macara. It is made from wood with 12 steel blades in the arm, back and foot rests and seat. The chair is one of many torture instruments purchased by Henry Wellcome. 1701-1900 Published: - Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
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