Sundial
Watkins and Smith
Category
Metalwork
Date
1763 - 1774
Materials
Bronze, stone
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mottisfont, Hampshire
NT 1954164
Summary
Bronze sundial mounted on a stone base. Gnomon centred on a sixteen-point compass surrounded by a Roman chapter ring for marking the time. Signed Watkins and Smith, London, 1763-1774.
Provenance
At Mottisfont Abbey and by descent to Peter Barker-Mill; Gilbert and Maud Russell, 1935; Transferred to the National Trust under Maud Russell's Memorandum of Wishes, 1957.
Makers and roles
Watkins and Smith, maker