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miniature bone diptych sundial

Date: 17th or early 18th century

Inventory Number: 7894

Classification: Sundial

Subject:

astronomy, time finding,

Maker: Karner workshop ? (fl. 1590 - 1733)

Collector: Harold C. Ernst (1856 - 1922)

Collector: Ernst Collection of Sundials (founded circa 1900)

Cultural Region:

Germany,

Place of Origin:

Nuremberg,

Dimensions:

closed: 0.9 x 2.7 x 4.5 cm (3/8 x 1 1/16 x 1 3/4 in.)

Material:

bone, brass,

Description:

See full description in Steven A. Lloyd, Ivory Diptych Sundials, 1570-1750 (Cambridge: Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, 1992), cat. no. 38.

Signedunsigned

Curatorial RemarksLloyd38

ProvenanceHarold Clarence Ernst, MD, Boston, c. 1900-1922 (no. 94); Mrs. Ellen L. Ernst (his widow), Jamaica Plain, MA, 1922; on loan to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1923-1938; gift to Harvard College Observatory, 1938; transfer to CHSI, 1964.

Published ReferencesSteven A. Lloyd, Ivory Diptych Sundials, 1570-1750 (Cambridge: Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, 1992), cat. no. 38.