Lot Essay
This sundial was orignally from the garden of Dante Gabriel Rosetti's London home. When he died his sister Christina gifted the sundial to Alice Boyd at Penkill as a momento for his affection for Penkill and its owners
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A carved stone sundial, the baluster column worked with foliage, the sundial engraved with an inscription and with pierced gnomon, the dial 12in. (30.5cm) wide
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This sundial was orignally from the garden of Dante Gabriel Rosetti's London home. When he died his sister Christina gifted the sundial to Alice Boyd at Penkill as a momento for his affection for Penkill and its owners