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Diptych Dial, Italian?, 16th Century

Inventory Number 54660

Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.54660

Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.54660

Subject: Sundials
Item type: Object
Provenance: Presented by Lewis Evans
Primary inscriptions: Unsigned and undated
Physical material: Ivory; brass and glass
Object type: Diptych dial
Dimensions: Height: 72mm Width: 65mm Depth: 11mm
Inventory No: 54660
Accession Number: 1924-0/part

Description

Round dial with hinge projection. Upper leaf cracked and repaired in the (distant) past.

Italian attribution because of painted compass card?

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