Period:Unknown
Materials:ivory, brass, cotton,
Technique:
Dimensions:Diameter: 5.90 centimetres (brass pan) Diameter: 0.50 centimetres (ivory stick) Height: 0.90 centimetres (brass pan) Height: 2.20 centimetres (brass weight) Length: 24.50 centimetres (ivory stick) Weight: 7 grammes (brass pan) Weight: 45 grammes (brass weight) Weight: 6 grammes (ivory stick) Width: 1.70 centimetres (brass weight) Depth: 1.60 centimetres (brass weight)
Description:
Steelyard made of ivory, with brass pan and brass weight attached by cotton string.
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![图片[1]-steelyard; steelyard-weight BM-As-SLMisc.552.a-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_01381981_001.jpg)
Comments:Sir Hans Sloane’s ‘Miscellanea’ catalogue is a bound volume in Central Archives containing seven separate catalogues: ‘Miscellanies’, ‘Antiquities’, ‘Seals’, ‘Pictures’, ‘Mathematical Instruments’, ‘Agate Handles’ and ‘Agate Cups, Bottles, Spoons’. Each contains numbered entries that list and describe objects collected by Sloane between the 1680s and 1750s. Each catalogue begins with object number one. Text from Sloane Miscellanea catalogue: Miscellanea Miscellanies 552 “552. A pair of Chinese Scales with its weights & an abacus upon it.” See record EAS131 for case.Found in As,SL.552.b
Materials:ivory, brass, cotton,
Technique:
Dimensions:Diameter: 5.90 centimetres (brass pan) Diameter: 0.50 centimetres (ivory stick) Height: 0.90 centimetres (brass pan) Height: 2.20 centimetres (brass weight) Length: 24.50 centimetres (ivory stick) Weight: 7 grammes (brass pan) Weight: 45 grammes (brass weight) Weight: 6 grammes (ivory stick) Width: 1.70 centimetres (brass weight) Depth: 1.60 centimetres (brass weight)
Description:
Steelyard made of ivory, with brass pan and brass weight attached by cotton string.
IMG
Comments:Sir Hans Sloane’s ‘Miscellanea’ catalogue is a bound volume in Central Archives containing seven separate catalogues: ‘Miscellanies’, ‘Antiquities’, ‘Seals’, ‘Pictures’, ‘Mathematical Instruments’, ‘Agate Handles’ and ‘Agate Cups, Bottles, Spoons’. Each contains numbered entries that list and describe objects collected by Sloane between the 1680s and 1750s. Each catalogue begins with object number one. Text from Sloane Miscellanea catalogue: Miscellanea Miscellanies 552 “552. A pair of Chinese Scales with its weights & an abacus upon it.” See record EAS131 for case.Found in As,SL.552.b
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