Bronze Sundial Signed Charles Bryne London, Anno Dom 1742

The face engraved with a sun and bordered with a latin inscription “utque redit viam constans quam suspiris umbra funax homines non reditura sumus”

which translates to “The shadow flees and retraces its path every day, man is the shadow that flees without the spirit of return”

Provenance The George Withers Collection

45.5 cms diam