A guide to the Mediaeval Room and to the specimens of mediaeval and later times in the gold ornament room : with fourteen plates and a hundred and ninety-four illustrations (1907)
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography, Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945, Read, Charles Hercules, Sir, 1857-1929 · [London] : Printed by order of the Trustees · leaf 137
n. The chalice, goblet, or cup-dial (Ilorologhun in cratere) is in theform of a cup, the hour-lines being engraved on the interior. Thefine example in Table-Case K was made in Bavaria in 1550. The pillar dial in its commoner form was a cylinder with amovable gnomon at the top. This is set at the… … Fig. 88.—Dials of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. On the left,armillary dial by E. Culpeper of London, late seventeenth century : in themiddle, pillar-dial. Munich. 1567 ; on the right, ring-dial by Humfrev Cole,1575. - round the cylinder. These dials, sometimes called shepherdsdials, were…
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography · Art objects · Art, Medieval
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