Vintage Iron Garden Sundial "Tempos Fugit"
Located in Elkhart, IN
A stunning vintage iron garden sundial reading "Tempus Fugit," which translated from Latin means "Time Flies." USA, Late 20th Century Measures: 9.25"W x 9.25"D x 3"H Good vintage ...
Iron
Vintage Garden Sundial, English, Stone, Bronze, Ornamental, Outdoors, Circa 1950
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a vintage garden sundial. An English, reconstituted stone column with bronze dial and gnomon, dating to the mid 20th century, circa 1950. Fascinating treat for your garden w...
Stone
Vintage Garden Armillary Sundial on Column Pedestal
Located in Elkhart, IN
A stunning vintage garden sundial on column pedestal USA, Late 20th Century Metal armillary, atop cast resin pedestal Measures: 14"W x 14"D x 26.5"H Very good original vintage c...
Metal
Mid 20th Century Antique Iron Wall Sundial
Located in Stamford, CT
Mid 20th Century antique iron wall sundial with a nice weathered paint finish. This is an unusual sundial that mounts on a wall facing South to tell the time of day. Hanging in the c...
Iron
Weathered Brass Garden Sundial This sundial is made in Cast Brass
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
Weathered Brass Garden Sundial This sundial is made in Cast Brass, it is a heavy piece, the numerals are Roman and there are also the astrological signs around the bottom A very att...
Brass
American cast iron & bronze sundial, 1900
Located in Kenilworth, IL
Cast iron sun dial stand, newly powder coated in a fired enamel and fitted with a Fumo quartzite octagonal top with a cast bronze sundial. American, early 20th century.
Quartz, Bronze, Iron
Extraordinary Ceramic and Bronze Armillary Sphere Stamped, “Thomason Excudit”
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Very beautifully fashioned from cast ceramic stoneware with bronze Armillary Sphere having incised Roman Numerals on the inner band. Tall and elegant in form with an octagonal platfo...
Bronze
Sold|$1,321
Reconstituted Stone Sundial
Located in Donhead St Mary, Wiltshire
A reconstituted stone sundial with acanthus and swirl detail. Additional information: Material: Stone.
Stone
Large English Sundial of Composition Stone with Bronze Dial for the Garden
Located in Austin, TX
A large English sundial of composition or garden stone - featuring a bronze sundial inscribed with a sun, numerals, cardinal directions, along with a fixed gnomon (the shadow-casting...
Stone, Cast Stone, Metal, Bronze
Vintage Iron Garden Armillary Sundial
Located in Elkhart, IN
A stunning vintage iron garden armillary sundial USA, Late 20th Century Measures: 13"W x 9"D x 12.25"H Excellent vintage condition.
Iron
Vintage Garden Armillary Sundial on Cast Corinthian Column Pedestal
Located in Elkhart, IN
A stunning vintage garden sundial on cast concrete corinthian column pedestal Circa 1980s Metal armillary, atop cast stone pedestal Measures: 15.75"W x 15.75"D x 36.5"H Good vin...
Concrete, Iron
Vintage Garden Armillary Sundial on Cast Stone Pedestal
Located in Elkhart, IN
A stunning antique garden armillary sundial on pedestal Circa 1940s Metal armillary, atop cast stone pedestal Measures: 20"W x 12"D x 39.5"H Very good vintage condition ...
Cast Stone, Iron
Sold|$2,450 / set
Vintage Regency Monumental Wrought Iron Sundials, a Pair
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Fantastic pair of vintage Regency sundials. Monumental in size and drama. Constructed from a wrought iron in a matte black finish. Intended for your garden, but just as gorgeous indo...
Wrought Iron
Sold|$1,200
Work List Armillary
Located in Sheffield, MA
A vintage Swedish armillary sundial, accented with numeric banding around the sphere's center perimeter can be placed on plinth or a table to make a striking addition to any garden l...
Metal
Vintage Verdigris Sun Clock Armillary Sun Dial on Pedestal with Atlas Holding Th
Located in Round Top, TX
Antique garden ornament from Denmark, known as a Sun Clock or Armillary, with a cast metal figure holding spherical rings (representing Atlas holding up the world) and mounted on a p...
Stone, Metal
Vintage Sun Dial Armillary on Pedestal from Denmark
Located in Round Top, TX
Antique garden ornament from Denmark, known as a Sun Clock or Armillary, with a cast metal figure holding spherical rings and mounted on a pedestal base (representing Atlas holding u...
Stone
Sold|$565
Bronze Frogs on Lily Pad Sun Dial
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Bronze frogs on lily pad sun dial. 7" by 6 3/4" by 3 1/4" tall.
Bronze
Sold|$1,880
Swedish Sun Dial
Located in New Orleans, LA
Atlas is supporting the universe in this classic mid-century garden ornament from Sweden. He is standing on a 20 inch iron pedestal with climbing ivy motifs on all four sides. The or...
Metal
Sold|$1,200
20th Century Concrete/Bronze Swan Sundial
Located in Dallas, TX
Beautiful sundial with bronze top. Garden ornament features swans along the bottom. Item dates back to the 1980s. Origin; France.
Concrete, Bronze
Sold|$3,191
Glazed Ceramic Lefco Sundial
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
A glazed ceramic garden sundial with bronze sundial plate, attributed to LEFCO (Leeds Fire Clay Company). Additional Dimensions 33.5 cm square base 25.5 cm diameter Sundial ...
Ceramic
Swedish Atlas Astrology Garden Armillary & Stone Pedestal
Located in Vienna, AT
A Swedish garden armillary flared base having seated on cast hard stone balustrade pedestal, 20th century.
Multi-gemstone, Brass
Sold|$725
Brass and Wood Hour Glass
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An hour glass with brass supports and oak wood top and bottom. A handsome piece and a compliment to many settings, from Offices to Dens. The piece is a nice size and would make a nic...
Brass
Sold|$475
Cast Brass Garden Sundial
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3-373 brass garden sundial.
Brass
Sold|$875
Large Cast Bronze Garden Sundial
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3-372 large cast bronze garden sundial.
Bronze
Large English Sundial and Bird Bath of Composition Stone with Bronze Dial
Located in Austin, TX
A lovely English garden sundial/bird bath of composition stone with a bronze dial and gnomon. Featuring a bronze sundial inscribed with numerals, cardinal directions, and the foll...
Cast Stone, Metal, Bronze
Large English Sundial of Composition Stone with Bronze Dial
Located in Austin, TX
A large English sundial of composition or garden stone with a bronze dial and gnomon, featuring a bronze sundial inscribed with numerals, cardinal directions, and the four seasons of...
Cast Stone, Composition, Metal, Bronze
Vintage Sun Clock or Armillary of Atlas Holding World on Pedestal
Located in Round Top, TX
Antique garden ornament from Denmark, known as a Sun Clock or Armillary, with a cast metal figure holding spherical rings and mounted on a pedestal base (representing Atlas holding u...
Stone, Metal
Sold|$1,237
Weathered Portland Stone Sundial
Located in Pease pottage, West Sussex
Weathered oversized Portland stone sundial, bronze sundial plate with original currently not attached to plinth to allow correct positioning once in location. Sundial plate is Englan...
Stone
Vintage Armillary or Sun Clock on Original White Pedestal Base, Denmark
Located in Round Top, TX
This vintage painted globe shaped garden ornament, called an armillary, is made up of metal bands, pierced by an arrow and supported by a mounting bracket. The base is an image of At...
Metal
Vintage Sun Clock or Armillary from Denmark
Located in Round Top, TX
This vintage copper and vertigris globe shaped garden ornament, called an armillary, is made up of metal bands, pierced by an arrow and supported by a mounting bracket. The base rese...
Metal, Copper
Vintage Sun Clock or Armillary from Denmark with Zodiac Stand
Located in Round Top, TX
This vintage black painted globe shaped garden ornament, called an armillary, is made up of metal bands, pierced by an arrow and supported by a mounting bracket. The base has images ...
Metal, Copper
Sun Clock or Armillary from Denmark with Figure of Atlas Holding the Globe
Located in Round Top, TX
This vintage silver painted globe shaped garden ornament, called an armillary, is made up of metal bands, pierced by an arrow and supported by a mounting bracket. This has a favored ...
Metal, Copper
Chrome and Marble Table with Etched Celestial Sphere
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A wonderful polished chrome table with an etched marble top of a celestial sphere. The chrome has one small portion of loss, see images.
Marble, Chrome
Sold|$5,500
Bronze Armillary Sphere on Base
Located in Katonah, NY
A small armillary sphere ornamented with signs of the zodiac, American, circa 1960, on associated terracotta pedestal, of fluted columnar form, with ornamental band of anthemia at to...
Bronze
Large English Sundial of Composition Stone with Bronze Dial
Located in Austin, TX
A large English sundial of composition or garden stone with a bronze dial and gnomon, featuring a bronze sundial inscribed with numerals, cardinal directions, and the Four Seasons of...
Cast Stone, Composition, Metal, Bronze
Antique English Bronze Richard Glynne Fecit Cast Iron Garden Sun Dial circa 1920
Located in Big Flats, NY
An antique English garden sun dial signed Richard Glynne offers bronze dial surmounting flared and fluted column base, signed Richard Glynne Fecit as photographed, circa 1920. Mea...
Bronze, Iron
Sold|$4,950
Unusual English Stone Sundial
Located in Katonah, NY
A composition stone sundial pedestal, the body having the appearance of stacked slabs of varying dimension, with lead dial plate.
Cast Stone
Sold|$2,900
Bronze Sundial with Granite Column
Located in Dallas, TX
This circular bronze sundial on a red granite column originates from Europe circa the 20th century. The interior side of the wide bronze band marked out with Roman numerals from I to...
Granite
Sold|$950
Neoclassical Garden Sundial
Located in Stamford, CT
Neoclassical style cement garden sundial with metal plate top and fluted column base. Please note of wear with age due to exposure to the elements.
Concrete, Metal
Sold|$1,939
Lefco Glazed Ceramic Sundial
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
About A glazed ceramic garden sundial with bronze sundial plate, attributed to LEFCO (Leeds fire clay Company) This design is a copy of a sundial produced in terracotta and sto...
Ceramic
Large Scale Steel Armillary Sphere Sundial with Gold Leaf Gilt Details
Located in Casteren, NL
A beautiful large scale is armillary in metal with a central sphere depicting earth. The arrow is the axis, the earth revolves on. The point, earth, and arrow are gold leaf gilt. T...
Steel, Gold Leaf
Cast Stone Naturalist Sundial Pedestal with Stylized Gothic Figures
Located in Big Flats, NY
A cast stone naturalist sundial pedestal features elements of baroque and Rococo with trunk and stick form and having Gothic figures, 20th century. Measures: 40" H x 21" x 21".
Cast Stone
Vintage Swedish Armillary Attributed to Sune Rooth
By Sune Rooth
Located in Newtown, CT
Vintage Swedish Armillary attributed to Sune Rooth. It is 33" wide at the arrow. The rings are 17" x 16" and it stands 26.5".
Iron
Sold|$1,614
Antique Sundial, 1940s
Located in Leuven, Vlaams Gewest
Antique sundial zodiac base cast metal and copper armillary on stone base This magnificent sundial was made in Finland in the 1940s. The numbers are inlayed in copper The zo...
Metal, Copper
Sold|$1,731
Large Swedish Copper Garden Sundial, 1950
Located in Drottningholm, SE
Large Swedish copper Garden Sundial, 1950. A very beautiful and rare garden sundial made of copper and very nicely oxidated with a wonderful patina. This sundial has following dimen...
Copper
Gerard Barrère et Thomas, Globe Made circa 1950 on Mahogany Base
By Gerard Barrère & Thomas
Located in Wingene, BE
Globe displaying the world map on a 1:40 000 000 Meter scale. Made by Gerard Barrère et Thomas, circa 1950. Globe rotates within metal ruler. Ruler rotates on wood base. Language...
Metal
Swedish Mid-20th Century Wrought Iron and Copper Garden Sundial
Located in Drottningholm, SE
Swedish Mid-20th century wrought iron and copper garden sundial. Another beautiful sundial that we have for sale, this one is painted black and have copper dials with an arrow acros...
Copper, Wrought Iron
Large Swedish Mid-20th Century Wrought Iron and Copper Garden Sundial
By Sune Rooth
Located in Drottningholm, SE
Large Swedish mid-20th century wrought iron and copper garden sundial. A rare and beautiful garden sundial made of wrought iron and copper. The fish that holds the sundial is made o...
Copper, Wrought Iron
Sold|$1,150
Large Wrought Iron Clock Face
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Large weather iron 42 inch clock face with roman numerals. This is a decorative wall decoration with gilt numerals, hour and minute hand that is not a time piece. The hands are stati...
Strikingly Large Black Iron and Tessellated Stone Armillary Sculpture
By Maitland Smith
Located in Hopewell, NJ
Strikingly large Maitland Smith armillary on a black tessellated base. Made of solid iron, the armillary measures 39” tall on a 12.5” base. There are nine iron rings that rotate arou...
Stone, Iron
Sold|$850
Vintage English Sundial
Located in Calgary, Alberta
Vintage English composite sundial on baluster base and stepped plinth. The sundial plate is inscribed, “let others tell of storms and showers, I’ll only count your sunny hours”. Woul...
Concrete
Sold|$1,650
French Wrought Iron Sundial
Located in Winter Park, FL
A French wrought iron sundial with old painted patina. Measures: 36.5" H x 25" W x 25" D. Base is 17" x 17" More photos available upon request. We have a lar...
Wrought Iron
Vintage English Brass Armillary Astrolabe Globe
Located in Calgary, Alberta
A English vintage brass spherical armillary astrolabe globe. They were designed over 2000 years ago to solve astronomical problems, specifically to tell time.
Brass
20th Century Wall-Mounted Copper Sundial
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
This sundial is signed ‘S Higgon 1990’ and is inscribed latitude 53 33 Longitude 38 m w Weight 3 kg.
Copper
Sold|$3,200
Carved Italian Marble Sundial
Located in Dallas, TX
This beautifully carved marble sundial from Italy has a wrought iron gnomon for telling the time. As the earth rotates on its axis, the gnomon casts a shadow from the sun onto the ta...
Marble
Early Edition Helix Sundial by Piet Hein for Helios, Denmark, 1986
By Piet Hein, Helios
Located in Wilnis, UT
Rare early edition Helix Sundial designed by Piet Hein for Helios in Denmark, 1986. Piet Hein designed the sundial in 1986 for the park at Egeskov Castle in Denmark. The unique fe...
Steel
1960s, Aluminium, Brass, Steel and Copper Sundial
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Exceptionnal sundial in aluminium, brass, steel and copper, circa 1960.
Aluminum, Brass, Copper, Steel
Although typically decorative, antique and vintage sundials transport a guest in your home to a different era, their simple function a tether to the ancient world.
Humans have tracked time since the dawn of civilization. Before the invention of precise mechanical clocks, various materials including water and incense were used to mark the passage of time. The sundial was one of the earliest of these timekeeping devices.
The oldest known sundial dates back to 1,500 B.C. in Egypt. The very first sundials were simple stone blocks with markings and a vertical needle of wood or metal to indicate the hours with its shadow. Later Greek sundials had a gnomon parallel to the axis of the Earth. Some flat sundials from the Islamic world were directional objects for pointing the way to Mecca.
Mechanical clocks use a series of gears and springs to track time precisely; sundials rely on light and shadow. As sunlight crosses over a sundial, it casts a shadow that moves across the face of the dial as the Earth rotates.
There are now more accurate, easier and probably cooler ways to tell time, yet the sundial persists. It is not uncommon to find flat stone sundials among an assemblage of decorative elements in colorful gardens and standing sundials in expertly appointed outdoor spaces.
While garden sundials are among the most popular sundials today, sundials made of metal, stone, bronze and more can be found on 1stDibs to match any taste or setting. The collection also includes sundials of Scandinavian, British and North American origins.
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