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Diptych Dial
Attributed to a Thomas Tucher
circa 1600; Nuremberg
Ivory and brass; 87 x 122 x 14 mm

This is a richly decorated dial with foliage and figures of fruits, along with green and brown colouring. The latitude is indicated by 'POLVS HEG' (for the height of the pole) whereas in the small scaphe dials it is abbreviated as 'P<olus> G<radus>'.

The dial is not signed, but the maker's mark of a crowned snake, used by the Tucher workshops in Nuremberg, is punched twice inside the compass bowl.

Museum of the History of Science, Oxford
Inventory number 46994

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