Period:Unknown
Materials:wood, metal,
Technique:
Dimensions:Height: 1.60 centimetres Weight: 144 grammes Width: 29.70 centimetres Depth: 7.60 centimetres
Description:
Polished wood steelyard-case (fish or club-shaped, with 2 leaves on metal hinge; recesses for steelyard, pan and weight).
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![图片[1]-steelyard-case BM-As-SLMisc.632.b-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_01381507_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-steelyard-case BM-As-SLMisc.632.b-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_01381515_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 632 “632. A pair of Chinese Scales & weight wt. the reduction of the China weights to English by Mr. Alexr. Brown.” Only the case seen by A.W.Franks (1853) – Sloane Catalogue annotated.Contain(s)/ed As,SL.632.a
Materials:wood, metal,
Technique:
Dimensions:Height: 1.60 centimetres Weight: 144 grammes Width: 29.70 centimetres Depth: 7.60 centimetres
Description:
Polished wood steelyard-case (fish or club-shaped, with 2 leaves on metal hinge; recesses for steelyard, pan and weight).
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 632 “632. A pair of Chinese Scales & weight wt. the reduction of the China weights to English by Mr. Alexr. Brown.” Only the case seen by A.W.Franks (1853) – Sloane Catalogue annotated.Contain(s)/ed As,SL.632.a
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