John Dee's Obsidian Mirror at the British Museum, by Rachel King, published by Mexicolore in 2021, is a specialist Aztec-studies education site's detailed account of the mirror's acquisition history, its 1966 purchase from the Reverend Robert William Stannard and its prior ownership by antiquarian Horace Walpole. It was used in this atlas because the British Museum's own object-record page does not serve automated readers directly, and it was independently verified by checking this page directly. Its precise accession-code digits disagreed by one character against a second independent account, so that specific code is not asserted anywhere in this atlas, though every other detail, dimensions, date, seller, price and the Walpole provenance, was consistent across every account checked.
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Rachel King's John Dee's Obsidian Mirror at the British Museum, published by Mexicolore in 2021, the middle tier reflecting a specialist Aztec-studies education site's detailed, independently verified account of the mirror's acquisition and provenance, used because the British Museum's own object-record page does not serve automated readers directly. Its accession code digits disagreed by one character against a second account, so that specific code is not asserted anywhere in this atlas, though every other detail was consistent across every account checked. NotesSpecialist Aztec-studies education site publishing the British Museum object record's acquisition history in detail (dimensions, 1966 purchase from the Reverend Robert William Stannard, and prior ownership by the antiquarian Horace Walpole). Used because the British Museum's own site does not serve automated readers directly; checked directly against this page, 2026-08-08. Its own precise accession-code digits disagreed by one character against a second independent account, so the accession number is not asserted anywhere in this atlas; every other detail here (dimensions, date, seller, price, Walpole provenance) was consistent across every account checked.
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AuthorRachel King
PublisherMexicolore
Publication Year2021
URLhttps://www.mexicolore.co.uk/aztecs/artefacts/british-museum-obsidian-mirror
Source Typereference article
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