Sundial
Category
Metalwork
Date
1921
Materials
Copper
Order this imageCollection
Dudmaston, Shropshire
NT 814062
Summary
Copper 'Golden Wedding' sundial: scroll bracket pointer on square base. Engraved dial with Roman numerals set in bluebell border. Engraved with inscription decorated with spandrels.
Provenance
Dudmaston collection. The sun dial commemorates the Golden Wedding anniversaries of Lady Labouchere's great grandparents and her grandparents.
Marks and inscriptions
'1845 FH W-W; 1871 FA W-W; I W-W 1895; A-M W-W 1921. 'Shadow and Sun, So too our lives are made. Yet think how great the Sun, How small the Shade' (engraved)