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- Title
- Goldweight
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Ghana, Akan
- Physical Description
- Goldweights are small objects cast from brass used to weigh out quantities of gold and gold dust. They are cast using a lost-wax casting technique, wherein wax is sculpted into the desired shape and a mold is pressed around the wax model. Then, the mold is heated and the wax drained out, leaving a void in the shape of the original wax model. Liquid brass is poured into the mold and allowed to set before the caster cracks the mold open and retrieves the finished goldweight.
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1997/1.497
- Medium and Support
- brass
- relevance
- rank 16.43829
- Primary Keywords
- brasswork
- metalwork
- weighing devices
- Title
- Goldweight
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Ghana, Akan
- Physical Description
- Goldweights are small objects cast from brass used to weigh out quantities of gold and gold dust. They are cast using a lost-wax casting technique, wherein wax is sculpted into the desired shape and a mold is pressed around the wax model. Then, the mold is heated and the wax drained out, leaving a void in the shape of the original wax model. Liquid brass is poured into the mold and allowed to set before the caster cracks the mold open and retrieves the finished goldweight.
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1997/1.387
- Medium and Support
- brass
- relevance
- rank 16.43829
- Primary Keywords
- african
- brasswork
- weighing devices
- Title
- Goldweight
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Ghana, Akan
- Physical Description
- Goldweights are small objects cast from brass used to weigh out quantities of gold and gold dust. They are cast using a lost-wax casting technique, wherein wax is sculpted into the desired shape and a mold is pressed around the wax model. Then, the mold is heated and the wax drained out, leaving a void in the shape of the original wax model. Liquid brass is poured into the mold and allowed to set before the caster cracks the mold open and retrieves the finished goldweight.
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1997/1.407
- Medium and Support
- brass
- relevance
- rank 16.43829
- Primary Keywords
- african
- brasswork
- weighing devices
- Title
- Goldweight
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Ghana, Akan
- Physical Description
- Goldweights are small objects cast from brass used to weigh out quantities of gold and gold dust. They are cast using a lost-wax casting technique, wherein wax is sculpted into the desired shape and a mold is pressed around the wax model. Then, the mold is heated and the wax drained out, leaving a void in the shape of the original wax model. Liquid brass is poured into the mold and allowed to set before the caster cracks the mold open and retrieves the finished goldweight.
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1997/1.429
- Medium and Support
- brass
- relevance
- rank 16.43829
- Primary Keywords
- african
- brasswork
- weighing devices
- Title
- Goldweight
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African, Ghana, Akan
- Physical Description
- Goldweights are small objects cast from brass used to weigh out quantities of gold and gold dust. They are cast using a lost-wax casting technique, wherein wax is sculpted into the desired shape and a mold is pressed around the wax model. Then, the mold is heated and the wax drained out, leaving a void in the shape of the original wax model. Liquid brass is poured into the mold and allowed to set before the caster cracks the mold open and retrieves the finished goldweight.
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1997/1.390
- Medium and Support
- brass
- relevance
- rank 16.25953
- Primary Keywords
- african
- animals
- brasswork
- weighing devices
- Title
- Five Parts of a Scale
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, African
- Physical Description
- A brass scale that is separated into five parts. The scale has two circular scale pans, the pillar, the balancing screws and the plumb line.
- Object Creation Date
- 1900-1985
- Accession Number
- 2010/1.176A-E
- Medium and Support
- brass
- relevance
- rank 16.25953
- Primary Keywords
- brass-work
- scales (weighing devices)
- Title
- Design For a Fireplace
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Germany
- Century
- 16th century
- Object Creation Date
- late 16th century
- Accession Number
- 1968/2.63
- Medium and Support
- pen, ink and wash
- relevance
- rank 15.91343
- Primary Keywords
- figures
- interiors
- portraits
- scales (weighing devices)
- sword
- Title
- La Justice Protégé les Arts
- Artist
- Gilles Demarteau
- Physical Description
- This crayon-manner engraving printed in sanguine depicts a grouping of figures arranged in a celestial space and positioned against clouds. A large female figure draped in cloth dominates the upper portion of the composition. She holds a set of scales in her left hand. Two female figures, one clothed, one nude, gather below at this figure’s sandaled feet in the center left of the composition. The clothed figure holds a palette and paintbrushes while the nude figure holds a mallet and a sculpted portrait of a man’s face. At the bottom right three male figures, one of whom wrestles a snake, appear to be attacking the female figure holding the palette. A clothed figure donning a helmet protects the figure holding the scales in the upper right.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1729-1776
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1763-1767
- Accession Number
- 2012/2.182
- Medium and Support
- crayon-manner engraving, printed in sanguine on heavy laid paper
- relevance
- rank 15.91343
- Primary Keywords
- allegory
- justice
- painting
- scales (weighing devices)
- sculpture
- Title
- Fish Day
- Artist
- Minnie Murphy
- Artist Life Dates
- 1901-1962
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1938
- Accession Number
- 1943.93
- Medium and Support
- wood engraving on paper
- relevance
- rank 15.74584
- Primary Keywords
- barrels (containers)
- fish
- scales (weighing devices)
- workers
- wpa