Scales, Balances, & Weights

Scales

Lead alloy weight (National Museum of Ireland R2417). Ireland

Copper alloy balance (York Archeological Trust 10405). England - ca. 930-75

Balance (British Museum 1921,1101.320). Sweden - 10th-11th C.

Balance case (British Museum 1921,1101.321). Sweden - 10th-11th C. 

Balance (British Museum 1852,0329.240). Latvia - 11th-12th C.

Coin balance (National Museum Wrocławiu MNWr XV-420/a-e). Europe - 11th-12th C. 

Scale beam and bags (Brooklyn Museum 86.224.79a-b). 1000-1400

Balance beam for scales (UBC Museum of Anthropology 2990/747). Peru - 1000-1476

Scale beam (Brooklyn Museum 86.224.119). Peru - 1000-1500

Balance scale (Brooklyn Museum 86.224.104). 1000-1532

Human balance (British Museum 1883,0621.46). 13th-14th C.

Balance (Brooklyn Museum 41.1275.126). Peru - 1296-1397

Ring and dot balance scale beam (Brooklyn Museum 41.1275.127). 1296-1397

Balance scale beam (Brooklyn Museum 41.1275.118). 1390-1442

Net balance (SLAM 325:1986). Peru - ca. 1400-1600

Balance chain (York Archeological Trust 12930). England - 15th C.

Winged Dragon with a Balance (National Gallery of Art 1957.14.750.b). Italy – late 15th-early 16th C.

The Gold Weigher by Jan van Hemessen (Gemäldegalerie 656A). Netherlands - 1510-50

"Friendship Is Equality; A Friend Is Another Self" (National Gallery of Art 2006.11.42). France – ca. 1512-14 

The Lender and His Wife by Quentin Metsys (Louvre INV 1444; MR 821). 1514

The Merchant Georg Gisze by Hans Holbein the Younger (Gemäldegalerie 586). 1532

Balance standard (V&A Museum M.122-1953). Germany - 2nd half of 16th C.

 

Weights 

Weights on Heraldic Art.

 

Coin weight (LACMA M.2002.1.601). Syria - 1000-1250

Nest of weights (V&A Museum 1205:1 to 11-1864). Nuremberg - 1550 

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