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Lot 252
A RARE POCKET COMPASS SUNDIAL BY JOHN FOWLER, CIRCA 1730 constructed in engraved brass with black wax filling, folding gnomon, blued-steel needle, signed J Fowler fecit between 'III' and 'VIII', complete with lid -- 2 5/8in. (6.7cm.) diam John Fowler worked between 1721 and 1750 from The Globe, Sweeting's Alley by the Royal Exchange, London, and specialised in sundials and compasses.
Lot 248
A POCKET COMPASS SUNDIAL BY ELLIOTT BROTHERS, CIRCA 1870 with 1½in. silvered dial signed Elliott Brothers / 440 Strand / London, mounted on lacquered brass bedplate with three levelling screws, two bubble levels, folding latitude scale and hour ring with folding gnomon, contained within plush-lined Morocco case with label on base, overall -- 3½in. (9cm.) wide; together with an early 19th-century brass pocket compass sundial, unsigned and lacking case (2)
Lot 770
A mid 19th century English bronze horizontal sundial plate, signed W N Last, Bury St Edmunds, the 10" (25.5 cm) circular dial well engraved with roman numerals, the months of the year, watch-slower watch-faster, N S E W and further divisions and with an armorial device 'Hac Numquam Fallit Imago' (This Never Lies) Condition Report weathered but engraving still good, slightly misshapen due to original mounting
Lot 256
Guyot (Edme-Gilles) - Nouvelles Récréations Physiques et Mathematiques , 4 vol Nouvelles Récréations Physiques et Mathematiques , 4 vol., first edition , half-titles, 73 folding engraved plates, including 68 hand-coloured, 3 tables including one folding, each vol. with engraved price-list bound in at end, contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt, rubbing to edges and joints with splitting to 2 joints, [Honeyman 1584; Caillet 4900], 8vo, Paris, Chez Gueffier , 1769-70. A superior copy of the first edition of this work by the renowned French doctor, inventor and cartographer Guyot (1706-1786); includes mathematics, geometry, optics, sundial, cosmography, mechanics, arithmetic, magic, fireworks as well as puzzles and conundrums.
Lot 38
Sundial: An extremely large Georgian sundial plateinscribed made by Dudley Adam Charing Cross London indistinctly dated 178* and with engraved armorialthe dial 61cm.; 24ins diameter; 74cm.; 29ins diameterThe arms appear to be that of Thomas Neville of Borrismore House, Country Kilkenny Ireland, whose coat of arms recorded as a bulls head beneath a Ducal coronet with the motto Ne vile velis (don’t wish anything bad)Dudley Adams is recorded as working between 1788 and 1817 and operating from 53 Charing Cross London between 1788 and 1796. He is recorded as making a number of scientific instruments including barometers microscopes as well as sundials. Unusually, this particularly plate also incorporates a bronze surround and may well have originally incorporating a rotating mechanism.Literature: Directory of British Scientific Instruments Makers 1550-1851 by Gloria Clifton, published by The National Maritime Museum, 1996, p2
Lot 41
Sundial: A rare Compton Pottery Peacock terracotta sundiallate 19th/early 20th century with small makers mark and 6ins bronze dial130cm.; 51ins highThe Compton Potters Art Guild was started by Mary Watts, the wife of G.F. Watts the Victorian allegorical painter. In 1895 work began on the Watts Mortuary Chapel. Designed by Mary Watts, it was to be built from local clay by the villagers of Compton, near Godalming, Surrey. Mr and Mrs Watts were dedicated supporters of the growing Home Arts and Industries Association, a voluntary movement launched by Earl Brownlow in 1885 to revive the dying art of handicraft among the working classes. The idea was that young uneducated artisans should have their eyes opened to the wonders of art. They would be rescued from idleness, gambling and drinking -so the notion ran- during long winter evenings. Uplifted and taught how to use their hands with skill they would acquire a hobby to be proud of and develop this hitherto unknown talent, where possible to professional standards. The Pottery Art Guild continued from strength to strength, winning medals at the Royal Botanical Society and the Home Arts’ highest award, the gold cross. The Peacock sundial was one of the earliest pieces produced by the pottery in 1898. Modelled by Thomas Steadman, his intention was to represent the three steps of the sun; for the morning a cockerel; an early Christian symbol for watchfulness, for noon a peacock; Buddhist and Brahmin symbol of immortality, and for the evening, an owl symbolising truth and wisdom. Exotic terracotta garden pottery, designed by both Archibald Knox, who was Liberty’s chief designer and Mary Watts of the Compton Pottery were offered for sale in Liberty and Co’s Yuletide Gifts catalogue of 1903-4 in which this model sundial was described as the Owl sundial.Literature: Archibald Knox and Mary Seton Watts, Modern Celtic Art Garden Pottery, by Veronica Franklin Gould, in which this sundial model is illustrated on page 15
Lot 725
A 20th century brass sun-dial and compass with outer dials: the top having an inset compass above a sundial with raised gnomon, with three sides of the cube having dials for calculating the moonphase dates, the sun and star configurations, with the fourth side engraved in Italian and signed G. Giovan Paolo Gallucci in Venzia, A.D. MDXCIV, the base with an opening for placing on a pedestal, diameter 8cm x 8 cm x 8cm.
Lot 32
A German Stockert pattern fruitwood diptych pattern pocket sundial Unsigned, early 19th century The upper leaf with central column printed with eight positions for the string gnomen from latitude 40 degrees to 56 degrees in two degree increments within hand-coloured laurel pendant swag bordered Arabic chapter ring graduated for the hours 6-12-6 , the lower leaf centred with a glazed four-point compass with iron needle within three circles of hourly graduations for latitudes 45, 50 and 55 degrees and decorative foliate swag and floral motif borders, the exterior labelled with the latitudes for forty-eight European cities, 7cm (2.75ins) long; with an English brass pocket compass sundial, unsigned, second half of the 18th century, with floating hand-coloured compass card printed with a sixteen-point rose and divided for two degree increments to outer edge, contained beneath engraved hour circle graduated for the hours III-XII-VIII and with folding gnomen set at around 51 degrees retained by pivots positioned at twelve o'clock and to a serpentine-shaped bridge across the centre, the cylindrical case with ring-turned screw-on cover applied with a printed compass rose to interior, diameter 5.7cm (2.25ins). The diptych sundial in the current lot is of a type developed by Johann Paul Stockert of Bavaria, Germany during the latter quarter of the 18th century.
Lot 33
A fine French silver small pocket sundial Jacques Thoury, Paris, late 17th century The oval silver plate with outer hour scale engraved IIII-XII-VIII divided into quarter-hour subdivisions around a central rosette with radial hour-lines between, the glazed four-point compass with adjacent inscription Pour 49, degrez opposing fine foliate pierced and engraved hinged gnomen, the underside with leaf decorated spring bar bisecting engraved signature Jacques Thoury, A Paris and fitted with two small baluster turned feet opposing moulded silver-gilt compass box engraved with a fine radial leaf design to the base cap, length 5cm (2ins). Provenance: The estate of a connoisseur collector of regional furniture, works of art and clocks. An almost identical dial by Jacques Thoury is in the collection of The National Maritime Museum, Greenwich where the curators note that Thoury was as a Member of the Founders' Corporation from about 1684. Another similar dial signed Roch Blondeau, Paris was sold at Christies, King Street THE ALBERT ODMARK COLLECTION OF IMPORTANT CLOCKS AND WATCHES 11th March 2005 (lot 249) for £2,640.
Lot 34
A very rare patinated brass noon sundial Unsigned, probably late 18th century The angled gnomen set at 51 degrees applied to a rectangular plate with rounded ends engraved with a sector for the hours XI - I with arrow half hour markers and principal quarter divisions further sub-divided, 15cm (6ins) long by 6.3cm (2.5in) approx. wide. The current lot appears to be a very rare form of garden sundial purpose made only to indicate one hour each side of noon. The most likely reason why such a dial was made was to allow the time of a mechanical clock to be set against the Sun's Zenith at noon with the assistance of an equation of time table. This would suggest that the current lot may have been specifically supplied as an accessory alongside a clock (and equation table) to a client who had no other means of telling the time.
Lot 35
A fine English patinated brass garden sundial with equation of time Unsigned, early 19th century The 11.75 inch circular plate fitted with angled gnomen set at 51 degrees and centred with an eight-point compass rose with stylised leafy scroll decoration to segments annotated N, NNE, NE, ENE, E, SE, ESE S, SSW, SW, WSW, W, WNW and NW within the inner track, the middle band with equation of time table incorporating annual calendar within chapter ring with engraved inner border and Roman numerals IIII-XII-VIII with tied lozenge half hour markers and inscribed with the motto SIC FLUIT VITA between the IIII and VIII numerals, the outer track divided into thirtieths denoting two minute intervals, 28.8cm (11.75ins) diameter. The general design and features such as the annotations to the equation of time scale and tied asterisk half hour markers seen on the current lot can be directly compared to an example by Whitehurst and Son of Derby (dated 1812) currently in the Derby Museums collection. The provision of an equation of time table allows mean time to be calculated from solar time provided by the sundial - this allows the time on a clock or watch to be set from the dial with a reasonable degree of accuracy.
Lot 934
Dated 1663 AD. A pewter portable sundial, square in shape with attached triangular gnomon; the upper face of the dial plate is decorated with a sunburst with face in the centre, the details of which are raised; the equally spaced lines indicate the hours and has Roman numerals that are arranged clockwise; at the top the plate is inscribed the date 1663; pierced at two corners. 95 grams, 65mm (2 1/2"). Property of a Derbyshire gentleman; found Shottle and Postern, Amber Valley, Derbyshire, UK. Recorded with the Portable Antiquities Scheme with reference number DENO-7BACD8; accompanied by a print out of the PAS report. Fine condition.
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