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Diptych Dial
Attributed to a Thomas Tucher
circa 1600; Nuremberg
Ivory; 139 x 75 x 15 mm

This dial is unusually wide, and finely decorated with fruits and flowers. The small scaphe dials indicate Italian hours (or 'Welsch hour') and 'Penmische' hours - probably another name for the same system of hours.

On the outer part of both leaves is the same decoration with two full figures.

Museum of the History of Science, Oxford
Inventory number 78766

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