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Diptych Dial
Unsigned
circa 1480; Nuremberg
Ivory; 67 x 46 x 8 mm

Only the lower leaf remains of this very early diptych dial. It has a compass bowl and a horizontal dial with common hours marked from IIII to XII to VIII. A geometrical pattern is engraved beside the compass bowl.

See P. Gouk, The Ivory Sundials of Nuremberg 1500-1700 (Cambridge, 1988), p. 135.

Ilaria Meliconi

Museum of the History of Science, Oxford
Inventory number 80193

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