Gold pomander

A museum object A historical object in a museum collection, described for history and education. It is not a Radler Parfums product.

The museum’s record describes a gold pomander in the form of a snail shell, hinged on one side, with the letter E inscribed on the inner lid; it gives its origin as “Possibly Swiss”.

The record keeps to the museum’s own metadata on Zenodo: its title, date, accession number and description, each quoted from the filed record. It is a historical object, not a Radler Parfums product. 3D model: The Hunt Museum, via Zenodo, CC BY 4.0.

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museum object

Gold pomander (The Hunt Museum, MG 087)

A museum object: The Hunt Museum, MG 087, 3D-scanned by the museum. Not a Radler object.

The museum’s record describes a gold pomander in the form of a snail shell, hinged on one side, with the letter E inscribed on the inner lid; it gives its origin as “Possibly Swiss”. Gold pomander: gold, 17th century AD, Possibly Swiss. The Hunt Museum, MG 087. The 3D model is the museum’s own scan, simplified for the web; the record states no size.

Size

scale not stated: the museum’s record gives no dimensions, so the model keeps the scan’s own units

Source

The Hunt Museum, MG 087; 3D model by The Hunt Museum (deposited on Zenodo)

Licence

CC BY 4.0 · credit: “Gold pomander” (MG 087), 3D model by The Hunt Museum, via Zenodo, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18948074, licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Modified (simplified and converted: the mesh reduced, its colour and surface baked to textures, GLB and USDZ written; not rescaled, as the record states no size) by Radler Parfums.

Model

20,000 triangles (simplified from 73,886)

The files GLB 833 KB

The record

Each field carries its evidence: open a chip for the source, the quoted words and the confidence. A field with nothing behind it says so and stays empty.

Title

Gold pomander

documented

Gold pomander

HUNT-1 · The Hunt Museum (Limerick) · read 2026-10-01

the museum record’s title

confidence A

Date

17th century AD

documented

17th century AD

HUNT-1 · The Hunt Museum (Limerick) · read 2026-10-01

the museum record’s date; the museum’s own wording

confidence A

Maker

not on record

not on record

the museum names no maker

Designer

not on record

not on record

the museum documents no designer

Place

Possibly Swiss

documented

Possibly Swiss.

HUNT-1 · The Hunt Museum (Limerick) · read 2026-10-01

the museum’s own hedge, kept word for word

confidence A

Material

gold

documented

A gold pomander in the form of a snail shell.

HUNT-1 · The Hunt Museum (Limerick) · read 2026-10-01

the museum’s description: a gold pomander

confidence A

Dimensions

not on record

not on record

not stated by the museum in any open record that could be read on 2026-10-01: the Zenodo metadata gives no size; the museum’s own collection pages could not be read (a browser check); no Europeana record of this object was found

Collection

The Hunt Museum

documented

The Hunt Museum

HUNT-1 · The Hunt Museum (Limerick) · read 2026-10-01

the deposit’s data provider: the museum itself

confidence A

Accession

MG 087

documented

MG 087

HUNT-1 · The Hunt Museum (Limerick) · read 2026-10-01

the museum’s accession number (dc:identifier)

confidence A

The museum’s description

“A gold pomander in the form of a snail shell. It is hinged on one side with a simple locking pin on the other. The letter E is inscribed on the inner lid. Possibly Swiss.”

documented

A gold pomander in the form of a snail shell. It is hinged on one side with a simple locking pin on the other. The letter E is inscribed on the inner lid. Possibly Swiss.

HUNT-1 · The Hunt Museum (Limerick) · read 2026-10-01

the museum’s own description, word for word (its hedges kept)

confidence A

DOI

10.5281/zenodo.18948074

documented

10.5281/zenodo.18948074

HUNT-1 · The Hunt Museum (Limerick) · read 2026-10-01

the DOI of the museum’s Zenodo deposit (an outward id)

confidence A

3D model

3D model by The Hunt Museum, CC BY 4.0

documented

https://zenodo.org/api/records/18948074/files/gold_pomander.glb/content

HUNT-1 · The Hunt Museum (Limerick) · read 2026-10-01

"Gold pomander" (MG 087), 3D model by The Hunt Museum, via Zenodo, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18948074, licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

confidence A

Deposit

the museum’s deposit on Zenodo

documented

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18948074

HUNT-1 · The Hunt Museum (Limerick) · read 2026-10-01

the deposit’s DOI link (the record of the object on Zenodo; the same link is the edm.xml’s ProvidedCHO)

confidence A

Connections

No filed source links this object to a fragrance, perfumer, historical event or material in the records; none is claimed.

Sources

1. HUNT-1 · The Hunt Museum (Limerick). 3D models with metadata, deposited on Zenodo, 2026-03-11: “Greek, hand-vase clasping a lekythos” (HCM 233), DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18947964; “Attic white-ground lekythos” (HCM 228), DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18949666; “Gold pomander” (MG 087), DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18948074; “Cosmetic jar” (MG 008), DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18948624. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18948074 · read 2026-10-01 · CC BY 4.0

Our text and structure are CC BY 4.0; quoted source text stays under its owners’ terms.

this record as data: /data/bottle/gold-pomander-snail-shell-hunt.json · version 3 · updated 2026-10-01 · confidence A