Kitchen scales
Category
Household and miscellaneous
Date
Unknown
Materials
Metal
Measurements
190 x 330 x 200 mm
Order this imageCollection
Gunby Hall Estate, Lincolnshire
NT 638733.1
Summary
A set of kitchen balance scales with a cruciform support for a dish and an elongated octagonal stand for the weights each raised on counterbalanced arms set within a moulded base and united by a suspended rectangular frame. Originally black lacquered, later painted silver and much decayed with rust.
Provenance
1990, purchased from J Montgomery-Massingberd.
Marks and inscriptions
in the body, beneath the balance: cast in the body, beneath the balance; now illegible