Collection of Ten Indian Cast Brass & Bronze Weights

This fine collection of ten weights of both cast brass and bronze and of differing sizes would have been used in the marketplace in India to effect all sorts of transactions in which the commodity was sold by weight.

Several of the weights are cast in the form of an amalaka – a stone disk with serrated or notched sides used atop the main tower (shikhara) of a Hindu temple.

The same name is given to a small fruit that has a similar form – the Indian gooseberry or the myrobolan fig – used in cooking and in Ayurvedic medicine.

Sometimes people would carry their own weights if they did not trust the sellers in the marketplace to use their own weights.

Each of the ten here is sculptural and has a pleasing patina, as well as much sign of use and wear.