Object data
wood, cork, brass, glass and sand
height 12.5 cm × diameter 6.6 cm
anonymous
Sand Glass of 15 Seconds
France, c. 1860
Inscriptions
- inscription, on the top: 15 S / MARINE / Nº 199 / IMPERIALE
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-1118-1
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Set of three sandglasses (NG-MC-1118-1, NG-MC-1118-2, NG-MC-1118-3), one of 15 seconds, two of 30 seconds. The glasses are mounted between two wooden plates, held together by brass bolts.
Four glasses were presented to the Dutch Navy in 1862 by Mr De la Marche, hydrographic engineer of the French Navy.1 The fourth glass, a 15 second glass, is lost.
Literature
J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1118
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Sand Glass of 15 Seconds, France, c. 1860', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244931
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