BRONZE WEIGHT

Weight of the 18th century. Bronze. Bronze weight, incomplete, with the container vessel and two of the smaller ones, all cold decorated with incised and printed motifs, simple edges on the small vessels and more complex borders on the container vessel. Nested cup weights are a set of cup or glass-shaped weights, which all fit precisely inside each other. A complete set is considered one that fully conserves all its original vessels. The largest, called a keeper, consists of a top lid with a handle and closure, and weighs exactly the same as the sum of all the others. The second in descending order weighs half as much as the keeper, and the same as the sum of the rest. This proportionality is maintained until the last weight, called the disc or last piece, which is usually solid and closes the game. This principle will remain unchanged until the introduction of the decimal metric system.

· Size: 11x12x12 cms.