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Hourglass marking 1/4 up to 1 hour (16thC) from southern Germany at Germanisches Nationalmuseum. Nuremberg, Germany. | Hourglass (c1915) by Furniture Shop at Oakland Museum of California. Oakland, CA. | Hourglass at Gladstone's Land tenement house. Edinburgh, Scotland. | Hourglass & other instruments in Da Vince workshops at Château de Clos Lucé. Amboise, France. |
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Ship's hourglass at John Cabot House. Beverly, MA. | Drop-front desk with hourglasses at Conference House. Staten Island, NY. | Rear of Blackstone chair which incorporates hourglass to time oral exams up to mid 19th C at Hunterian Museum. Glasgow, Scotland. | Hourglass timer in kitchen at Tenement House museum. Glasgow, Scotland. |
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Gnomes with hourglass on Equitable Life Insurance building. Des Moines, IA. | Owl over hourglass design in House chamber of Minnesota State Capitol. St. Paul, MN. | Ivory sleeping infant crowned with laurel wreath leaning on skull & hourglass symbolic of Vanity (17thC) from Germany at Louvre Museum. Paris, France. | Alexander VII Monument by Bernini (1678) in St Peter's, Vatican, features Death with hourglass reaching from beneath sculpted drapery. Vatican City. |
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Tombstone with grim reapers & hourglass at Granary Burying Ground. Boston, MA. | Tombstone with grim reaper & hourglass at Granary Burying Ground. Boston, MA. | Tombstone with grim reaper & hourglass (1737) at Granary Burying Ground. Boston, MA. |
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