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Objekt 7

Four-glass hourglass, probably for a courtroom

Object description

16. Century.

Ivory case, turned columns, profiled plates with black wooden feet, both plates with one, two, three and four raised small cones made of ebony to indicate the number of quarter hours, white glass, winding with red sealing wax and gold threads, gray metal sand

Inscription: BEATI QUI SITIVNT IUSTITIAM

Running time: 1 quarter, 2 quarter, 3 quarter and 4 quarter hours

Bequest Carl and Lini Nathan-Rupp, Binningen

Inv. 1982.1139.

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