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Provenance:
Sotheby's, London, 30th September 1997, lot 23.
Private collection.
For similar Marcus Purman dial signed with initial M P but dated 1597, see The Oxford Museum of the History of Science, inventory no. 42672.
Another example by Purman dated 1590 is illustrated in D & E Delalande, Cadrans Solaires, p.90/91.
Marcus Purman was active between 1588 and 1616 as a clock and sundial maker in Munich where he started as Ulrich Schniep's apprentice.