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Horizontal Garden Dial, by Michault, Paris, 19th Century?

Inventory Number 36911


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.36911

Item type
Object
Makers
Michault
Provenance
Billmeir Collection
Primary inscriptions
"MICHAULT AParis aLa floTe dangleterre Rue St denis vis avis celle de chanverris"
Physical material
Copper Alloy
Object type
Garden dial
Dimensions
Diameter: 215mm
Inventory No
36911
Accession Number
1957-84/203

Description

Circular hour plate, gnomon with hole and corresponding zodiacal scale on meridian line of plate.