Captured at the end of our recent visit to Kew gardens. Faked for being made of some kind of stone/cement based material while being a model of the sort of lead trough you might find at Hampton Court Palace - where the handles at the side, if still present, would actually work.
Zoom not much help to me as regards the material.
But Google Images offers the above.
And when pressed the above. Bing and Copilot not nearly so helpful.
Given that I would think the trough is quite old, I go for a cement bound composition stone.
A good example of AI speeding things up. I would probably have got to the same place using conventional queries but it would have taken rather longer.
For me, a big plus is being able to put in a natural language query, which the AI agent seems to be able to deal with most of the time. Must less bother than devising suitable search keys of the old sort.
PS: somewhat later: the foregoing did not take proper account of the possibility that the trough was made of monolithic stone, perhaps in the way of a coffin (aka sarcophagus) of old, for example from Ancient Egypt, or a pulpit, for example from a renaissance church in Florence. In the later case, I believe that the basic box shape was arrived at by fixing together stone panels, usually carved in relief, bas or otherwise. This would be tricky in the case of the bath shape we have above. A possibility which was so remote that it did not reach consciousness, but another aspect of it being a fake nonetheless.
References
Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-double-whammy-yesterday-in-form-of.html. Aka fake No.192.
Reference 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcophagus.
Reference 3: https://www.egypttoursportal.com/. The likely source of the coffin snap above, via Bing.
Group search key: fakesk.
No comments:
Post a Comment