STJN-DIALS AND THEIE MOTTOES. 
11 
I should like you especially to notice the dial in the shape - of 
a cross (Fig 10, p. 8), made by M. P. (Marcos Purman of Munich) 
in 1596; the gilt brass tablet covers (Fig. 11, p.' 9) ; the ivory 
folding dial (Fig. 12, p. 9), made by Johann Gebhart of Nuremberg 
in 1561 ; the gilt brass folding dial (Fig. 13, p. 9), made by 
Y. S. (Ulric Schneip of Munich) in 1570; the German gilt brass 
chalice dial, dated 1550 (Fig. 14, p. 10), which is now in the 
British Museum ; the gilt brass disc-shaped dial with a compass 
(Fig. 15, p. 10), which was made in Borne in 1585, and shows 
the Italian hours, which are reckoned from sunset to sunset; the 
silver Japanese dial (Figs. 16, 17) ; the very pretty dial of silver 
and black enamel (Fig. 18, p. 16), which was made by Macquart 
of Paris about 150 years ago; and the French watch, made by 
Gribelin of Blois about 1610, with a sun-dial in its case. The size 
of this may perhaps remind you of Captain Cuttle’s watch, thus 
described by Dickens: u The Captain pulled up the silver watch, 
Fig. 16.— Japanese Silver Dial 
(open). 
Fig. 17.—Japanese Silver Dial 
(closed). 
w T hich was so big, and so tight in his pocket, that it came out like 
a bung.” Perhaps it also resembled that watch in its going powers, 
as the Captain said, “ Put it back half an hour every morning, and 
about another quarter towards the arternoon, and it’s a watch 
that ’ll do you credit ” ; if so, the maker was a wise man when he 
added a sun-dial to it, as a stand-by. 
There is also a very pretty little tortoise-shell and silver dial 
made by Charles Bloud of Dieppe, about 1660, for Maria Theresa, 
daughter of Philip 1Y of Spain and wife of the “ Grand Monarque ,” 
Louis XIY. The dial has an escutcheon engraved on it bearing 
the arms of France and Spain. 
Before passing on to sun-dial mottoes I may explain the nocturnal 
or star-dials to which I have alluded. These usually consisted of 
three plates held together by a rivet with a sight-hole up its 
centre; the larger or handle plate had a circle on it divided into 
months and days; the second plate, which was smaller than this 
