Ur
Upplands Museum

Ur

Unknown artist

CC0 — Public Domain
Upplands Museum

Barrel with wooden case, green painted with darker green marbling. On the case door rose painting in red, white and dark green around oval glass windows and a keyhole. Profiled List Work and Hairlists Hood has swung gable crown and framed glass windows on tr sides, flanked by four turned colonettes. Secondary subpart marked with lighter green. Clock and pendulum of brass with two solders of ingot. Dial of sheet with rounded top. Siffration of pewter with Romanesque hourly figures and Arabic numerals for every five minutes. The ring surrounds ciselated brass board. At the top of this is a round pewter board with Arabic second figures and sages. Down a tin plate with the inscription: Hans Georgsen Gürtler UPSALA. On the rounded top of the dial is a tin ring with the inscription: TEMPUS FUGIT. MEMENTO MORI Corner fillings of cast gilded lead ornaments. Perceived hourly and minute hand screens of black painted iron.

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