Inventory no. 53463 - Former Display Label
CURVE BOW of unknown origin
?c.1750
Wood and brass. Unsigned and undated.
Cf. the similar instruments illustrated in Dom François Bedos de Celles, La gnomique pratique, 2nd ed., Paris, 1774, pl. 36, fig. 86, and William Ford Stanley, Mathematical Drawing and Measuring Instruments, 6th ed., London 1888, p. 218.