Kurt Kilty

Antique hourglass with polychrome paint

This Antique timer is painted green, yellow and red; early 19th c. 7" tall with 4 hand-turned wood pillars. This fine hourglass is a 60-minute red sand timer (professional restoration on glass ampule). By the first half of the 14th c, sand-glass was a commonly known form of time-keeping in Italy. It's thought that sandglass was invented for the distance travelled by ship.

7"H x 4"W