A Nuremberg folding sundial and compass - image-1
A Nuremberg folding sundial and compass - image-2
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Lot 1490 D‡α

A Nuremberg folding sundial and compass

Auction 1174 - overview Cologne
04.06.2021, 12:00 - Decorative Arts
Estimate: 1.000 € - 1.500 €
Result: 2.250 € (incl. premium)
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A Nuremberg folding sundial and compass

Made from carved and painted ivory with metal mountings, gilding and a hemp cord. Designed as two rectangular panels with four hinges, the upper face with a compass rose showing the four winds, the inside with a sundial, the base with a compass and lunar clock, the left edge with an aperture for a (missing) wind sock. Engraved on the underside "LIENHART MILER 1617", with a heraldic lily in the compass. When closed H 1.3, W 5.6, D 9.2 m.
1617.

Literature

Two similar sundials signed by Leonhard Miller and dated slightly later to 1636 and 1645 in the Kunstgewerbesammlung der Stadt Bielefeld/ Stiftung Huelmann (in Syndram, Wissenschaftliche Instrumente und Sonnenuhren, vol. I, Munich 1989, no. 19 f.).