A fine 16th-Century German gilt brass compass sundial, the right hand section of a diptych, signed * VS * [i.e. Ulrich Schniep], and dated 1577 , the engraved gilt brass baseplate with outer scale graduated 4 - 12 - 8 , surrounding a dial with pictorial depictions of the houses of the zodiac divided into tens of lunar days, and listing 26 saints days, labelled ZAICHEN. VND GRAD DER SONEN WEN DER TAG ZVO NIMT and ZAICHEN VND GRAD DER SONEN WEN DER TAG AB NIMT , bordered above by the CREBS KRAIS and below by the STAINBOCK KRAIS , vertical scales labelled NACHT LENG and TAG LENG , graduated 8 - 16 and 16 - 8 respectively, below a dial showing planetary hours, labelled PLANET: STOND and graduated X - II , below table titled WAS AL STOND VIR AIN PLANET REGIER BEYM TAGTAFEL , below the compass with brass-capped, blued-steel needle, the compass set in decorative panel and flanked by satyrs, the spring-loaded, folding plummet frame engraved with foliate motifs terminating in a [?] leonine head with flower issuing from the mouth, the plummet held captive in the frame by a horizontal ring, the dial fitted into a wooden casing with pasted-in astronomical woodcut -- 6½in. (16.5cm.) long See Colour Illustration and Detail
A fine 16th-Century German gilt brass compass sundial, the right hand section of a diptych, signed * VS * [i.e. Ulrich Schniep], and dated 1577 , the engraved gilt brass baseplate with outer scale graduated 4 - 12 - 8 , surrounding a dial with pictorial depictions of the houses of the zodiac divided into tens of lunar days, and listing 26 saints days, labelled ZAICHEN. VND GRAD DER SONEN WEN DER TAG ZVO NIMT and ZAICHEN VND GRAD DER SONEN WEN DER TAG AB NIMT , bordered above by the CREBS KRAIS and below by the STAINBOCK KRAIS , vertical scales labelled NACHT LENG and TAG LENG , graduated 8 - 16 and 16 - 8 respectively, below a dial showing planetary hours, labelled PLANET: STOND and graduated X - II , below table titled WAS AL STOND VIR AIN PLANET REGIER BEYM TAGTAFEL , below the compass with brass-capped, blued-steel needle, the compass set in decorative panel and flanked by satyrs, the spring-loaded, folding plummet frame engraved with foliate motifs terminating in a [?] leonine head with flower issuing from the mouth, the plummet held captive in the frame by a horizontal ring, the dial fitted into a wooden casing with pasted-in astronomical woodcut -- 6½in. (16.5cm.) long See Colour Illustration and Detail
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