- Subject
- Sundials
- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- Juan B. de Morales
- Provenance
- Presented by J. A. Billmeir. From the Chadenat Collection.
- Primary inscriptions
- "'Juan Bapta. Morales:Fe"
- Physical material
- Gilt brass and silver
- Object type
- Equinoctial dial
- Dimensions
- Height: 93mm Width: 101mm Depth: 22mm
- Inventory No
- 41963
- Accession Number
- 1957-84/221
Description
Brass box with hinged lid, latitude tables on outer surfaces, universal equinoctial dial inside with large inset compass, hinged square frame for hour circle, pivoted gnomon, latitude strut; inner lid decorated with engraved scene of the fall of Icarus.
