Asselin(e) David
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Nom
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Asselin(e) David
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Couverture temporelle
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17th century
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Biographie
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made a very fine pictorial ivory diptych dial (1), a combined ivory diptych and nocturnal in the Adler Planetarium, Chicago since at least 1912 (2), and at least two other instruments by him are known (3). [Query related to Jean Asselin ‘graveur mal converty’ (Roole…, Ms Mél Colbert 6 f 227v) and/or to the Rouen clockmakers of this name or to the Francis & Stephen clockmakers & engravers who emigrated to London 1687, and/or to l’Abbé David Asseline, author of Les Antiquitez et chroniques de la Ville de Dieppe… ed Michel Hardsy, Guérillon et l’Abb& Sauvage, Dieppe, 2 vols, 1874]. Cf. the remarks by Ickowitz & Hébert 87.
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Notes biographiques
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1 NMM (D8842, see Higton 284-5) ex Findlay collection, stylistically the dial is likely to date from the mid-century.
2. Ickowitcz 87.
3. Gunther ESO ii, 134 with, in parenthesis (Captain Creagh-Osborne), presumably the name of the then owner. A painted dial is recorded by Webster & Webster, 10, from the Wheatland Collection (now Harvard).
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Adresse ; enseigne ; période ; source
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Dieppe
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Identifiant
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161
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