Leather box with set of metal drawing instruments, late 17th-18th centuries

Leather box with set of metal drawing instruments, late 17th-18th centuries

• Image Number: K1D000689N000000000PAB
• Dynasty: Qing dynasty
• Category: Miscellaneous objects
• Function: Stationery, stationery, tools
• Material: Minerals/Metals/
• Description:
  This is a set of pocket drawing instruments stored in the leather outer box, including seven pieces of semicircle, scale, folding angle ruler, two angle gauge, pencil, pen and needle pen. The outer leather of the box is solid and meticulous. The box is composed of seven small compartments. The connection between the box cover and the box body is decorated with dotted embossing. The cover is lined with dark red velvet. This set of portable surveying and mapping tools is precisely engraved on various scales and completely assembled. It can be seen from the inscriptions on the semicircle and scale that this set of tools may come from the optical and mathematical instrument making workshop of Louis Chapotot and his son Jean Chapotot in Paris from the second half of the 17th century to the early 18th century.