Antique French mercantile scale weight
PATRICIA WELLS VOLUME III
This item is part of At Home with Patricia Wells, Volume III.
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An antique French bronze weight with a sculptural bell-shaped form, engraved markings and a ring designed to suspend it from the hook of a mercantile scale. Its wonderfully worn surface and traces of verdigris reflect many years of practical use.
Patricia and Walter discovered the weight at a local brocante and gave it a new purpose at Chanteduc, where it served as a doorstop to hold the farmhouse doors open against the powerful Mistral. Both decorative and functional, it is a characterful piece of French commercial history and Provençal domestic life.
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