A German four-part polychrome decorated bronze, glass and brass clepsammia or hourglass, Nuremberg

H 28 cm

Clepsammia (derived from the Greek words for 'thief of sand') is an archaic, precise term for an hourglass or sandglass. During the 17th C., the German imperial city of Nuremberg emerged as one of Europe's absolute premier centres for manufacturing these high-end timekeepers.

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