Ivory
Ivory from elephant tusks was a luxury material imported overland from Africa to medieval Europe. The Portuguese voyages of discovery opened up new trade routes making it available for a wider range of secular objects in the Renaissance. Ivory diptych dials were one of the characteristic products first of Nuremberg and later of Dieppe.
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Related Objects:
- Inventory No. 36708, "Scaphe Dial and Surveyor's Compass, by Alexander Ravillius, Italian, 1537" [1957-84/44a], Ravillius, Alexander
- Inventory No. 52554, "Bloud-Type Magnetic Azimuth Dial, by Charles Bloud, Dieppe, c. 1660" [1957-84/233], Bloud, Charles
- Inventory No. 36974, "Diptych Dial, German, c. 1650?" [1924-0/part]
- Inventory No. 49666, "Upper Leaf of a Diptych Dial, Nuremberg?, c. 1600" [1924-0/part]
- Inventory No. 58745, "Perpetual Calendar, German, 18th Century" [1924-0/part]