Tiffany Studios Bronze Garden Sundial and Corresponding Hour Plaques. Circa 1925. Stamped TIFFANY STUDIOS, N.Y.. Di.18-1/2 i... (Total: 16 Items)

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Tiffany Studios Bronze Garden Sundial and Corresponding Hour Plaques
Circa 1925. Stamped TIFFANY STUDIOS, N.Y.
Di.18-1/2 in. (sundial) & Di. 7 in. (approximately for each plaque)

The central sundial circular in form, a compass rose at the center with the cardinal and ordinal directions, the triangular gnomon in the form of Pan pipes, framed by a scroll marking the hours of the day with Roman numerals, inscribed 'TIS NOW THE VERY WITCHING HOUR OF NIGHT from Shakespeare's Hamlet, with twelve disk-shaped plaques corresponding to the hours, each cast with a Roman numeral and a Shakespearean quotation relating to the hour, plus extra plaques for hours IIII, IX, and X.

I THE BELL THEN BEATING ONE. HAMLET.
II SURE, LUCIANA, IT IS TWO O'CLOCK. COMEDY OF ERRORS.
III THE CLOCK HATH STRICKEN THREE. JULIUS CAESAR.
IIII HOW FAR INTO THE MORNING IS IT, LORDS? UPON THE STROKE OF FOUR. RICHARD III.
IIII HOW FAR INTO THE DAY IS'T NOW MY LORDS? UPON THE STROKE OF FOUR. RICHARD III.
V AT FIVE O'CLOCK I SHALL RECEIVE THE MONEY FOR THE SAME. COMEDY OF ERRORS.
VI HOW'S THE DAY? ON THE SIXTH HOUR. TEMPEST.
VII LET'S SEE. I THINK 'TIS NOW SOME SEVEN O'CLOCK. TAMING OF THE SHREW.
VIII THE EIGHTH HOUR BE THAT THE UTTERMOST. JULIUS CAESAR.
IX IT'S SUPPER TIME, MYLORD. IT'S NINE O'CLOCK. RICHARD III.
IX MY LORD, IT'S NINE O'CLOCK. RICHARD III.
X IT IS TEN O'CLOCK, THUS WE MAY SEE HOW THE WORLD WAGS. AS YOU LIKE IT
X TEN O'CLOCK WITHIN THESE THREE HOURS TWILL BE TIME ENOUGH TO GO HOME. ALL'S WELL
THAT ENDS WELL.
XI ELEVEN O'CLOCK THE HOUR. MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR.
XII WHAT HOUR NOW? I THINK IT LACKS OF TWELVE. HAMLET.

PROVENANCE:
Commissioned by William Leonard Benedict, banker and partner of Kidder, Peabody & Co., 1920s (first installed in Duxbury, Massachusetts, then Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts);
Purchased from Heritage Auctions, May 2008 by a Dallas Collector.


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