注意：此件拍品不接受线上竞价！Bronze Globe Sundial, Iryeong-wongu, Korea, 1890, mounted on a holder with a rotating knob to swivel the axis of the globe approx. 90 degrees, the bronze holder mounted on an iron base in the shape of four-petaled flower, each of which is inlaid in silver with two characters, "sun" and "moon" alternating with two decorations with a dragon and a sailing ship, the globe divided in two rotating hemispheres, inscribed with the "Gan-Ji" calendar system, including the twelve earthly branches to the upper (or right) hemisphere and ten celestial stems to the lower (or left), all of which laid out to correspond to a grid band in-between, the upper hemisphere with a hole showing nine of the twelve earthly branches underneath when rotated, an inscription reading "Iryeong-wongu" (meaning globe sundial), the lower hemisphere with a two-inch-long movable gnomon handle and an inscription with a date (1890) and a four-character seal reading "Sang Jik-hyeon in," ht. to 9 3/8 in.
Provenance: From a private collection in Oregon, previously in the family collection of a US army officer stationed in Japan during the late 1940s.
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