Four european containers for nesting weights · Ghana, Akan · ID: 3036450
sold
EUR 200
Provenance
Jürgen & Gisela Büse, Rheinbreitbach, GermanySize
H: 1,8 cm - 5,2 cm
H: 0.7 inch - 2.0 inch
Description
brass, with patina, one container (measure for four ounces), two small containers (measure for one ounce each), complete with set of all weights inside; one big container with six various weights;
these european stack- or application weights were not unusual to be found among the Akan sets of goldweights from 1600 up to the beginning of the 20th century.
Comparing literature
Menzel, Brigitte, Goldgewichte aus Ghana, Berlin 1968, ill. 1280 Museum Liaunig (Hg.), Das Gold der Akan, Neuhaus o.J., p. 39