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Horizontal Garden Dial, by Nicholas Oursian?, English, 1542

Inventory Number 39619


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.39619

Item type
Object
Provenance
Purchased.
Primary inscriptions
"N . O / 1542"
Object type
Garden dial
Dimensions
Height: 140mm Width: 206mm Depth: 206mm Weight: 1.466kg
Inventory No
39619
Accession Number
1992-5

Description

Horizontal garden sundial by N. O. (probably Nicholas Oussian), 1542, marked with the Tudor rose and motto 'Vive Le Roy H 8', said to have been found in Chester in the 1890s, and latterly mounted on the wall of a house at Aldbourne, near Marlborough, belonging to the Fraser family