Portable universal sundial in engraved ivory... - Lot 240 - Rossini

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Portable universal sundial in engraved ivory... - Lot 240 - Rossini
Portable universal sundial in engraved ivory with denticulated frieze and brass decoration. Outer faces: equinoctial dial at 1-12 o'clock twice, marking the half hours with polar dial in the center, 8-12-4. Perpetual calendar disk signed Jacques Senecal A Dieppe fecit. Inner faces: type 1 lunar dial with three discs, the smallest decorated with a rosette surmounting a crowned shield bearing the initials JVD, the second engraved with 30 days, the largest graduated 1-12 hours twice surrounded by the months divided into days 10-20-30/31. Graduated analemmatic dial V-XII-VII, flat hand, table of nineteen French cities with their latitude, cardinal directions and the circular compass dial graduated four times 90°. Dieppe, Jacques Sénécal, second half of the 17th century. H. 8.1 cm - W. 7.5 cm. (slight wear and cracking) Book consulted: P. Ickowicz, Les cadrans solaires en ivoire de Dieppe, Dieppe, 2004.
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