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    Maritime Art

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    31 January 2007

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    • A 20th-Century painted garden
    Lot 133

    A 20th-Century painted garden Armillary sundial

    Price realised

    USD 2,640

    Estimate

    USD 1,500 - USD 2,500

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    A 20th-Century painted garden Armillary sundial
    unsigned, with two meridians, a horizon band (both painted black and distressed) with copper strip to the inside face graduated four hours 4-12, 1-8, and a central wire gnomon in the form of an arrow, with painted head and tail, the mounting held aloft by a mythical figure in a loin cloth, along with a painted stone base in the form of dolphins (paint distressed) with a copper sun-dial at the top.
    64½ in. (163.8 cm.) high

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