Part of a model of an apparatus for flattening silver thread, to a scale of 4 inches to 1 foot: Asia, South Asia, India, Bihar, Patna, 1815 - 1821
- Museum reference
- A.UC.832.44
- Object name
- Silver thread flattening apparatus / model / part
- Production information
- Patna, Bihar, India, South Asia
- Materials
- Ebony, Metal
- Physical description
- The model consists of a rectangular ebony or wooden base, with a raised ciruclar block to the left hand side with a sloping surface. A white metal block is inserted in a depression on the slop, next to a small metal peg with a slit in it. Next to this on the base is a wooden post with small square pieces of leather and textile. To the right hand side of the base, there is a smaller rectanular raised block with 11 lacquer bobbins wound with metal thread inserted on pegs.
- Associations
- Commissioner: Tytler, Margaret, 1785 - 1822
- References
Tytler, Margaret. Catalogue of a set of models intended to illustrate the arts & manufactures of Hindostan executed under the Superintendence of the late Miss Margaret Tytler during her residence at Patna and in Tirhoot [Tirhut] from the year 1815 to 1821. With Prefatory Note by Tytler, John. Ass surgeon, Bengal Establishment, Monghyr July 1st 1824. [NMS Research Library, Special Collections]
- Copyright
- Public domain
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