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JOHAN MARTIN, EARLY 18TH CENTURY
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A GILT BRASS AND SILVER AUGSBURG DIAL
JOHAN MARTIN, EARLY 18TH CENTURY
silver hour band set in ring with engraved floral motif divided 3-12-9, subdivided to the half-hour, gilt-brass gnomon, engraved hand pointer for latitude, shaped silverlatitude arc [0°]-90° subdivided to 2°, gilt-brass dial plate and compass with four-point rose SE, OR, OC, ME, gilt brass compass base with table of latitudes for 35 cities, three silver bun feet, shaped and decorated silver brace for plumb bob, signed to the plate Johann Martin in Augsburg 48 in original gilt-tooled leather case.
3in. (8cm.) wide in case
JOHAN MARTIN, EARLY 18TH CENTURY
silver hour band set in ring with engraved floral motif divided 3-12-9, subdivided to the half-hour, gilt-brass gnomon, engraved hand pointer for latitude, shaped silverlatitude arc [0°]-90° subdivided to 2°, gilt-brass dial plate and compass with four-point rose SE, OR, OC, ME, gilt brass compass base with table of latitudes for 35 cities, three silver bun feet, shaped and decorated silver brace for plumb bob, signed to the plate Johann Martin in Augsburg 48 in original gilt-tooled leather case.
3in. (8cm.) wide in case
Provenance
Christie's South Kensington, 17 May 2007, lot 93
Exhibited
Included in the Exposition, and accompanying catalogue La Mesure du temps dans les collections Belges in 1984.