Events
Exhibition "Pocket and table sundials" in 2013/14
We organized an exhibition on "150 pocket and table sundials" which occured in our gallery in December 2013 and January 2014 in Paris.
The objective was to create an international event by exhibiting a numerous amount of high quality pocket and table sundials, around 150 (30 being from Renaissance times), making this exhibition unique in the world and hardly done in the past.
Indeed, it has never been possible in the past to assemble such a numerous numbers of sundials of that quality, coming from various countries and makers:
a) Germany / Austria :
- Bergauer, Hager, Heinrich Muller, Karner, Lesel, Linden, Martin, Martin Willebrand, Miller, Purmann, Reinman, Rugendas, Schniep, Troschel, Tucher, Vetter, Voigtlander, Willebrand,…
b) France / Flanders
- Baradelle, Blondeau, Bloud, Butterfield, Canivet, Chapotot, Chesnon, Coignet, Cremstorff, Danfrie, Delure, Dujardin, Greban, Guibout, Langlois, Laurier, Lefebvre, Lemaire, Macquart, Norry, Noury, Thoury, Sevin, Zeelst…
c) Italy including Lusuerg, Vulpariae, etc…
d) Persian, etc…
e) English with Humphrey Cole...
During that period, we also exhibited in our gallery a collection of astrolabes and armillary spheres.
Accompanied with full-detailed 430 pages reference book English/French including colored pictures.
Please find below a small part of the sundials which has been presented in this exhibition (with using the button "next" below each photo).
Some other scientific instruments in pictures on our French website on the following link.
- Exhibition book "Cadrans solaires / Sundials"
- Three 16th century compendiums...
- Sundial attributed to Johann Gottfried Zimmer
- A tryptich Nuremberg sundial made by Tucher
- A brass sundial nocturnal signed Ferrier
- A compendium made by Hager
- Two Persians sundials in brass
- An ivory Nuremberg sundial in the shape of a cross
- Silver sundial signed Thoury Paris
- Silver and brass sundial signed Laurier à Blois
- Charles Bloud sundial in ivory
- Butterfield sundials in silver and brass
- Portolan signed Peter Goos and Johannes van Keulen made in Amsterdam cicra 1660/1680
- Round brass sundial signed HYERONIMVS VVLPARIA . FA (ciebat) dated 1577
- Pair of terrestrial and celestial floor globes signed Cary London and dated 1816
- Meerschaum sculpture of the bust of Princess Sophie of Prussia
- Celestial globe signed Mattheus Seutter made in Augsburg circa 1710
- Large universal equinoctial ring signed George Adams dated 1773
- Photos of our new stand at the TEFAF !
- Ceremonial narwhal lance with coat of arms made at the 18th/19th century
- Cane with handle in ivory on the theme of the skull and the snake
- A small architect travel necessaire in gold made in England circa 1750/1770
- Painter gadget cane all complete made circa 1900
- Universal octogonal sundial signed Johann Melchior Hager made circa 1690
- A pair of terrestrial and celestial globes by Robert de Vaugondy dated 1763
- Sector compass forming a caliber signed Johannes Maccarius dated 1691
- Cane in massive tortoise shell representing a bird's head
- Microscope Marie type made in Paris circa 1745
- Reverse tapered telescope made in England circa 1680 / 1690
- Extraordinary cheroot of 43,5 cm long all in amber
- Sundial attributed to Johann Gottfried Zimmer
- Exhibition book "Cadrans solaires / Sundials"
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- Antique spyglass signed J. Field Cornhill London
- Three 16th century compendiums...
- A tryptich Nuremberg sundial made by Tucher
- Antique unusual astrolabe in wood made circa 1633