Portable horizontal nocturnal sundial and altitude sundial

Portable horizontal nocturnal sundial and altitude sundial

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The disk, which includes both the calendar and the dates of the entrance of the sun into each sign of the zodiac, is calibrated in accordance with the Julian calendar. In France, the Gregorian calendar supplanted the Julian in 1582.

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Portable horizontal nocturnal sundial and altitude sundialPortable horizontal nocturnal sundial and altitude sundialPortable horizontal nocturnal sundial and altitude sundialPortable horizontal nocturnal sundial and altitude sundialPortable horizontal nocturnal sundial and altitude sundial

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.