Period:Unknown
Materials:ivory, metal, cotton, wood, brass,
Technique:
Dimensions:Diameter: 6.40 centimetres (brass pan) Diameter: 0.50 centimetres (ivory stick) Height: 1.20 centimetres (brass pan) Height: 3.60 centimetres (wooden case) Length: 31.40 centimetres (ivory stick) Weight: 10 grammes (brass pan) Weight: 6 grammes (ivory stick) Weight: 117 grammes (wooden case) Width: 35.60 centimetres (wooden case) Depth: 7.30 centimetres (wooden case)
Description:
Steelyard made of ivory, metal (with metal pan attached by cotton string); housed in wooden bulb-shaped 2-leaved case with brass hinge; (case has space for weight – now missing).
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![图片[1]-steelyard BM-As-SLMisc.113-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_01381505_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-steelyard BM-As-SLMisc.113-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_01381506_001.jpg)
![图片[3]-steelyard BM-As-SLMisc.113-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_01381980_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 113 “113. China steelyards.”
Materials:ivory, metal, cotton, wood, brass,
Technique:
Dimensions:Diameter: 6.40 centimetres (brass pan) Diameter: 0.50 centimetres (ivory stick) Height: 1.20 centimetres (brass pan) Height: 3.60 centimetres (wooden case) Length: 31.40 centimetres (ivory stick) Weight: 10 grammes (brass pan) Weight: 6 grammes (ivory stick) Weight: 117 grammes (wooden case) Width: 35.60 centimetres (wooden case) Depth: 7.30 centimetres (wooden case)
Description:
Steelyard made of ivory, metal (with metal pan attached by cotton string); housed in wooden bulb-shaped 2-leaved case with brass hinge; (case has space for weight – now missing).
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 113 “113. China steelyards.”
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