Accession No

0114

Brief Description

magnetic dial, by Ernst Christophe Stockert, German, 1/2 19th Century

Origin

Germany

Maker

Stockert, Ernst Christophe

Class

dials

Earliest Date

1800

Latest Date

1850

Inscription Date

Material

metal (brass); glass; paper; wood

Dimensions

d 55 mm; h 49 mm lid diameter 58mm; thickness 24mm

Special Collection

Robert Whipple collection

Provenance

Purchased by Robert Stewart Whipple in Paris on 23/07/1923.

Inscription

‘Stockert’ (on dial plate)

Description Notes

Turned soft wood case; push fit lid; glass domed cover over the dial; engraved paper annulus with the 4 cardinal points marked; hand coloured, decorative rose motif. Rotating dial plate of paper set on the needle; hour scale divided IIII - XII, I - VIII, numbered by I, subdivided to 15 minutes. Brass gnomon.
Good condition, but the lid is not on display with it.

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