Period:Unknown
Materials:wood, brass, metal,
Technique:
Dimensions:Height: 3.40 centimetres Weight: 139 grammes Width: 26.70 centimetres Depth: 7 centimetres
Description:
Guitar-shaped steelyard-case made of wood (comprising 2 leaves on brass hinge, with leather tie); upper leaf has an abacus inset (with metal beads and rods).
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![图片[1]-steelyard-case; abacus BM-As-SLMisc.552.b-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_01381985_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-steelyard-case; abacus BM-As-SLMisc.552.b-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/43/mid_01381988_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.” Contain(s)/ed As,SL.552.a
Materials:wood, brass, metal,
Technique:
Dimensions:Height: 3.40 centimetres Weight: 139 grammes Width: 26.70 centimetres Depth: 7 centimetres
Description:
Guitar-shaped steelyard-case made of wood (comprising 2 leaves on brass hinge, with leather tie); upper leaf has an abacus inset (with metal beads and rods).
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.” Contain(s)/ed As,SL.552.a
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