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Description: | Balancing top made up of two parts; the stand and top. The top has a figure formed from a cylinder of wood that is shaped to form a head and conical hat at the top, is tapered at the bottom and has movable arms nailed to the cylinder. Through the tapered section is a piece of wire with short, cylindrical, wooden weights on either end. The wooden parts are decorated with abstract pink flowers with green foliage. The stand is formed of a tapering handle with a round top that is flat with a hole at the centre, into which the top balances. The stand is made from wood and is decorated with abstract pink flowers with green foliage.
label: black exhibition label with white text
caption: General view of whole of Horniman Museum object no 9.347
caption: General view of label of Horniman Museum object no 9.347 | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | tops wood felt stands Family and Home pigment iron Health and Healing | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-134828 | Go to resource |
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