A Fine Example of a Dieppe Magnetic ‘Azimuth’ or ‘Blound-Type’ Pocket Dial

A Fine Example of a Dieppe Magnetic ‘Azimuth’ or ‘Blound-Type’ Pocket Dial ‘Sundial’
Ivory, brass, silver, paper, glass
France
17th Century Circa 1660

Size: 2cm high, 7cm long, 6.5cm wide - ¾ ins high, 2¾ ins long, 2½ ins wide / 8 cm high - 3¼ ins high (when open)

Provenance:
Ex Private North Country collection
Ex Irish collection

CITES permit: 2025/BE00995/CE

The dial appears in the form of a diptych, commonly made of ivory, resembling the earlier Nuremberg diptych dials. Directional place names on our example include: ‘Paris, Rouen, Rheims, Rochell, Rome, Milan, Londres, Bruxel’.