A FINE GEORGE III ENGRAVED PATINATED BRASS GARDEN SUNDIAL J. SAUNDERS, LONDON, CIRCA 1775 The 15 inch circular plate fitted with angled brass gnomon set at 51 degrees over fine engraved sixteen-point central compass rose, within concentric ribbon banner engraved with two bands providing noon for sixteen global locations including Mexico, Barbados, New York, Ispahan and Pekin in China, the outer IIII-XII-VIII Roman numeral hour scale divided into eights, quarters and halves to inner track and minutes annotated for every ten to outer track, with cruciform beneath fleur-de-lys half hour markers and engraved signature J. Saunders LONDINI FECIT above twelve o'clock, the space between IIII and VIII engraved with an elaborate family crest incorporating shield inhabited by three Talbot dog heads surmounted by a close helmet and another talbot within fine scrolling foliate. The plate 38cm (15ins) diameter, 22.5cm (9ins) approx. high to tip of gnomon. A James Saunders is recorded in Clifton, Gloria Directory of British Scientific Instrument Makers 1550-1851 as a mathematical instrument maker working from Haberdashers Square in Grub Street, London, 1765-93. A cursory online search has suggested that the crest engraved on the present dial may relate to a French branch of the Talbot family.
A FINE GEORGE III ENGRAVED PATINATED BRASS GARDEN SUNDIAL J. SAUNDERS, LONDON, CIRCA 1775 The 15 inch circular plate fitted with angled brass gnomon set at 51 degrees over fine engraved sixteen-point central compass rose, within concentric ribbon banner engraved with two bands providing noon for sixteen global locations including Mexico, Barbados, New York, Ispahan and Pekin in China, the outer IIII-XII-VIII Roman numeral hour scale divided into eights, quarters and halves to inner track and minutes annotated for every ten to outer track, with cruciform beneath fleur-de-lys half hour markers and engraved signature J. Saunders LONDINI FECIT above twelve o'clock, the space between IIII and VIII engraved with an elaborate family crest incorporating shield inhabited by three Talbot dog heads surmounted by a close helmet and another talbot within fine scrolling foliate. The plate 38cm (15ins) diameter, 22.5cm (9ins) approx. high to tip of gnomon. A James Saunders is recorded in Clifton, Gloria Directory of British Scientific Instrument Makers 1550-1851 as a mathematical instrument maker working from Haberdashers Square in Grub Street, London, 1765-93. A cursory online search has suggested that the crest engraved on the present dial may relate to a French branch of the Talbot family.
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