98th Auction
2018/11/10
Lot 174
Charles Bloud à Dieppe, 57 x 64 x 16 mm, 101 g, circa 1660
A fine and rare ivory diptych azimuth dial with compass and calendar, delicately engraved with a noble coat of arms
Case: ivory, silver, brass.
Frenchman Charles Bloud was active as a maker of sundials in Dieppe around 1660. At the time Dieppe was very famous for objects made from ivory and for the production of sundials. Charles Bloud was born in Dieppe around 1640; he had three children - Marie Bloud, Charles (le Jeune) Bloud and another Charles Bloud, who was born in Rotterdam. The Bloud family fled from France to Rotterdam after the revocation of the edict of Nantes in 1685. In Rotterdam Charles Bloud came into contact with ivory carver Jean Le Grand. Bloud died in 1719 in Dieppe (Seine-Maritime).
More attractive ivory folding sundials by Charles Bloud are part of the collection of the Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon in Dresden; another is owned by the German horological museum in Furtwangen.
A fine and rare ivory diptych azimuth dial with compass and calendar, delicately engraved with a noble coat of arms
Case: ivory, silver, brass.
Frenchman Charles Bloud was active as a maker of sundials in Dieppe around 1660. At the time Dieppe was very famous for objects made from ivory and for the production of sundials. Charles Bloud was born in Dieppe around 1640; he had three children - Marie Bloud, Charles (le Jeune) Bloud and another Charles Bloud, who was born in Rotterdam. The Bloud family fled from France to Rotterdam after the revocation of the edict of Nantes in 1685. In Rotterdam Charles Bloud came into contact with ivory carver Jean Le Grand. Bloud died in 1719 in Dieppe (Seine-Maritime).
More attractive ivory folding sundials by Charles Bloud are part of the collection of the Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon in Dresden; another is owned by the German horological museum in Furtwangen.
Sold
estimated
1.700—4.000 €
Price realized
2.000 €