Portable diptych sundial

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The punched decoration and the use and layout of two of the dials on this instrument are very similar to those found on a group of ivory diptych sundials, more usually with a special variety of azimuth sundial, including one which is known to have been made during the second half of the seventeenth century in Dieppe, France, by Charles Bloud, the inventor of the type, by Gabriel Bloud and by Jacques Senecal. Examples exist in substantial numbers in most of the major French and English collections of sundials.

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The fifty thousand objects in the Museum's comprehensive and historically important collection of European sculpture and decorative arts reflect the development of a number of art forms in Western European countries from the early fifteenth through the early twentieth century. The holdings include sculpture in many sizes and media, woodwork and furniture, ceramics and glass, metalwork and jewelry, horological and mathematical instruments, and tapestries and textiles. Ceramics made in Asia for export to European markets and sculpture and decorative arts produced in Latin America during this period are also included among these works.

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