gold-weight
- Museum number
- Af1972,37.4
- Description
-
Lost wax cast geometric gold-weight, in brass, in the form of a thin rectangular-shaped base decorated on top with a raised asymmetrical line pattern consisting of two diagonally arranged scrolls flanked on two sides by seven-toothed comb motifs.
- Production date
- 1700-1972
- Dimensions
-
Height: 0.30 centimetres
-
Weight: 13.32 grammes
-
Width: 3.60 centimetres
-
Depth: 1.80 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Good.
- Acquisition date
- 1972
- Acquisition notes
- Af1972,37.1 to 8 is a group of Ashanti goldweights and similar objects that was purchased from the Oxfam shop in Cheltenham for £25.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1972,37.4