Museo Galileo
italiano
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Balance
    • Setting:
      Room XVII
    • Maker:
      unknown
    • Date:
      19th cent.
    • Materials:
      marble, brass, jade
    • Dimensions:
      670x515 mm, pan diameters 210 mm
    • Inventory:
      565
    • Balance (Inv. 565)

The balance has jade knife-edges, a marble pillar, and brass pans. Housed in a glass case, now missing. Provenance: Lorraine collections.