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A Richard Whitehead silver Butterfield-type sundial, English, circa 1690, signed Richard Whitehead Fecit, of standard Butterfield design with four hour scale in Arabic and Roman numerals, reverse of compass rose engraved with ornate Tudor rose and with twelve towns and latitudes, in damaged fish skin covered case, dial closed 7.5mm x 55mm x 65mm, case 18mm x 63mm x 73mm Footnotes: Provenance Trevor Philip & Sons, London July 1992 For very similar Whitehead silver dial, see the Oxford Museum of the History of Science, Inv. No. 39587. Richard Whitehead (w.1683-93) had his workshop at Gunpowder Alley, half-way up Shoe Lane, Fleet St., London and was apprenticed to Henry Wynne. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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A Richard Whitehead silver Butterfield-type sundial, English, circa 1690, signed Richard Whitehead Fecit, of standard Butterfield design with four hour scale in Arabic and Roman numerals, reverse of compass rose engraved with ornate Tudor rose and with twelve towns and latitudes, in damaged fish skin covered case, dial closed 7.5mm x 55mm x 65mm, case 18mm x 63mm x 73mm Footnotes: Provenance Trevor Philip & Sons, London July 1992 For very similar Whitehead silver dial, see the Oxford Museum of the History of Science, Inv. No. 39587. Richard Whitehead (w.1683-93) had his workshop at Gunpowder Alley, half-way up Shoe Lane, Fleet St., London and was apprenticed to Henry Wynne. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing