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.
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.
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