Four boys playing a game of blind man's buff; sun.
Crosshatched background.
Boehm 1987-1988 and Museum's opinion 2012: Germany (Nuremberg), c. 1500.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive polychromy and gilding: brown, gold (background, hair).
Reverse
Flat. Inscribed with a sundial and Roman Numerals. Four drilled holes along the top for attachment to the lower leaf of sundial. Two drilled holes in the sundial for the sundial pins.
Provenance
Anthony Blumka, New York; collection of Laila Gross, New York; Anthony Blumka, New York: purchased from him by the Museum thanks to the Rogers and Director's Discretionary Fund in 1987.
Bibliography
S.A. Lloyd, Ivory diptych sundials, 1570-1750, Cambridge MA: Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments (Harvard, 1922).
B. Drake Boehm, Recent Acquisitions, Metropolitan Museum of Art (1987-1988), p. 21.
P. Gouk, The Ivory Sundials of Nuremberg, 1500-1700 (Cambridge, 1988).
Mirror of the Medieval World, exhibition catalogue, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999, no. 242, pp. 200-201.
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