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Horizontal dial
    • Setting:
      Room II
    • Maker:
      unknown
    • Place:
      German or Dutch
    • Date:
      17th- early 18th cent.
    • Materials:
      ivory
    • Dimensions:
      diameter 73 mm, height 40 mm
    • Inventory:
      2468
    • Horizontal dial (Inv. 2468)

Dial housed in a round box with a screw-on lid carrying painted geographic hemispheres. The lower part of the box is fitted with a cross-bar and a sliding thread. Provenance: Medici collections.

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