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Horizontal Dial
Signed by Paul Reinmann
circa 1600; Nuremberg
Ivory and gilded brass; 37 x 43 x 14 mm

The Nuremberg sundial maker Paul Reinmann who often signed his work with a crown surmounted with five pearls made this elegant heart-shaped pocket sundial around 1600.

Noteworthy is the depiction on the inside of the brass lid of a fox or a hound leaping over a sea of fire.

Museum Boerhaave, Leiden
Inventory no. 13948

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