Antique Counterweights

Netsuke served as anchors or counterweights for inrô and sagemono. A single cord was threaded through a cord channel on one side of the suspended container, through two holes (himoto...

It consists of a pivoted pole with a bucket at one end and a counterweight at the other. They are still used in parts of Egypt, Africa and India today.

At the other end of those cords, men fastened small, ornamental objects as counterweights; those objects evolved into netsuke. The netsuke’s origins are still ‘theoretical’, Goodall...

This tree tall, dark, and imposingly vertical acts as the compositional backbone of the right half of the painting, its mass providing a counterweight to the horizontality of the mil...

The silhouetted trees, massed together on the right, provide a counterweight to the openness of the rest of the canvas.

Cylindrical with loose-mounted clip; top ring loose-mounted to pullout counterweight stick with engraved units in ounces. Measures a maximum of 3 ounces.

Extra large antique marble counter weight in the shape of a bell. Shanxi province, China.

Handsome swirl motif brass counterweight chandelier

A cast iron eagle printing press counterweight, circa 1860. Originally this neo-classical eagle balanced on the counter poise lever to aid the printing mechanism.

A beautiful wood and glass laboratory scale—fully functional—with a small monkey skull, 3 letterpress characters, and a set of counterweights (see last two photos). The front of the ...

Aluminum and nickel articulated counterweight table or desk lamp, circular bakelite base, by Edouard Wilfred Buquet, French 1928. 20”h, 6”d base.

Solid brass task light with counterweight. Can be used as a sconce or table lamp.

Architects Table made by UNIC in Paris, industrial metal base with counterweight & adjustable wood top 20th Century Paris

2 copper & brass candlesticks with an ovoid counterweight,an S shape stem flanked by two feet supporting a sconce

Brass and copper thirteen light counterweight chandelier with green milk glass shade.

With Writhen stem and candle socket counterweight hand-wrought Writhen iron and solid oak English, circa 1730 Measure: 8" high x 5.5" wide x 5.25" deep.

The writhen stem with "ram's horn" counterweight terminal wrought iron and richly patinated and burnished oak English or welsh, circa 1750 Measures: 8.25" high x 4.5" diameter.

Black painted metal hands with steel base and iron counterweights. 90" diameter maximum extension. Large hand measures 72" long, 11" wide, small hand measures 53" long, 13" wide.

Retains its original bronze finial and counterweight at base. Tin or iron feather has gilded surface.

On a shaped base elm base with a plain ball counterweight. Bibliography: See Robert Ashley’s 'The Rushlight and Related Holders: A Regional View' (Ashley Publications, 2001).

Great industrial form with an innovative counterweight design. An example of this lamp is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

The cast iron heart wight would have been attached to the tail of a large farm windmill as a counterweight to balance the large propeller. This form is quite rare as most of the weig...

a rare find - this antique lamp was originally a dentists lamp, with an iron wall bracket supporting an adjustable telescoping arm with the original wheels which hold the 4 light clu...

Illustrated in 'The Rushlight and Related Holders: A Regional View', Robert Ashley describes this rushlight as being ‘Surrey/Sussex style’. The rounded counterweight bears an incised...

His detachable head, with a brass counterweight, to enable the head to ‘nod’. Incised model number ‘No. 22’ to the base.

Raised on A Pyramidal Carved Oak Base with Moulded Details Hand Wrought Iron Metal and Oak English or Welsh A most unusual form, this early lighting device was made to serve a...

The inrô carries a netsuke: Japanese clothing object which is of use as counterweight to inrôs. The netsuke is in box tree in the shape of a dragon rolled up on itself.

Under Porfirio Diaz, the 'Guardia Rural' was the counterweight to the Federal army, the elite force that controlled industrial unrest and patrolled rural country areas.

The sliding screen is lined in front with a superb polychromatic silk fabric made by Pierre Frey after a 18th C. cartoon. The counterweight (probably in lead) is wrapped into the sa...

An iron rushlight with a four leg crown base, and a candle socket as a counterweight. With a decorative point under the leg juncture.

The sculptural 19th century diamond cutting machines of brass and cast iron construction, each with a cutting wheel and lead-weighted brass counterweights, used for the cutting of di...

There are two hidden drawers: the fan shaped area opens to reveal a drawer and the ere is a wide drawer below above the white columns.The fall is sprung and has lead counterweights h...