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Horizontal Dial
Signed by Girolamo della Volpaia
Dated 1576; Florence
Gilt brass; 125 x 110 mm

The pin gnomon dial, indicating Italian hours, is engraved on a brass plate, with three straight edges and a decorated one.

A small compass is also mounted on the plate.

Girolamo della Volpaia belonged to one of the later generations of a family of instrument makers in Florence, of which well-known members were his grandfather Lorenzo della Volpaia and his uncle Benvenuto della Volpaia.

British Museum, London
Registration no. MLA 1894, 12-11.2

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