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Gold-weight

Akan

Artwork Details

Gold-weight
1900-1985
Akan
brass
3/8 in x 3/8 in (1 cm x 1 cm)
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Milford Golden
1986/2.135

Description

Subject Matter:

Gold-weight in the shape of a geometric clover or trefoil. Weights of this shape were produced beginning in the 16th century and are a somewhat rare gold-weight shape. 
See: Sheales, Fiona, African Goldweights, London, BMP, 2014.

Physical Description:

Gold-weight in the shape of a triangular block with trefoil-lobed ends and grooved sides. 

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