IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 131083 accession number: M.3-1965 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 17 July 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Dial: Dial plate 4 1/8 inches (10.5 cm) across and 4 1/2 inches (11.4 cm) high, the centre engraved with the signature `Tho:Tompion Londini fecit' and a floral design. The gilt cherub spandrels of unusual design with crossed wings, a type which appears to have been restricted to Tompion minature clocks; Christopher Wren used a similar motif in a number of his buildings. The narrow silvered chapter ring with the 5 minute numbers within the minute divisions and simple half hour markings. Silvered alarm-setting disc behind the hour hand and a winding square within the chapter ring at XII for the going. Blued steel hands of simple early design. The dial plate with spare holes formerly used to fix a different chapter ring and one dial foot cut off. Movement: 8 day timepiece movement, with quarter repeating and alarm, with latched pillars and dial feet. Verge escapement set at about 30o to the vertical with the pendulum between the front plate and the dial, consisting of two wires in diamond formation to avoid the hour wheel pipe and with a lenticular shaped bob visible in a cut away section at the base of the dial. Repeating quarters on a small bell and hours on a larger one, the hours 7 - 12 being repeated as 1 - 6 to save power. The alarm train set at right angles to the going and wound through a hole in the right-hand case fret. The movement withdrawn from the case from below after sliding forward the bottom front moulding, necessitated by the very close fit of the movement in the case. Case: Blued steel with gilt metal mouldings, basket top and frets in side and rear openings. The basket top and frets of scrolling acanthus design. The door with silver moulding round glass and silver escutcheon. The case has no rear opening. Numbered `21' on rear right foot. title: clock NOTES ----- type: history note value: Dr Thurston; sold at Sotheby's, July 1932, ADD TITLE as `the property of Dr. Thurston'; then S.E. Prestige Esq. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: S.E. Prestige Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/131083 CATEGORIES ------ category: clocks DATING ------ creation date: 1680 - 1680 creation date earliest: 1680 creation date latest: 1680 culture: Charles II culture: 17th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Tompion, Thomas DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 19.0 dimension: Height units: in value: 7½ CITATIONS -------- Thomas Tompion, His Life and Work Annual Report of the Fitzwilliam Museum Syndicate for the year 1965 Early English Clocks : a discussion of domestic clocks up to the beginning of the eighteenth century Important clocks and watches --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa29/m_3_1965_1_201305_amt49_mas.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 763 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa29/mid_m_3_1965_1_201305_amt49_mas.jpg height: 671 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa29/m_3_1965_1_201305_amt49_mas.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 763 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa29/preview_m_3_1965_1_201305_amt49_mas.jpg height: 336 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/m_3_1965_2_201304_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1025 pixels width: 764 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/mid_m_3_1965_2_201304_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 671 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/m_3_1965_2_201304_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1025 pixels width: 764 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/preview_m_3_1965_2_201304_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 335 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa29/m_3_1965_3_201304_amt49_mas.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 763 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa29/mid_m_3_1965_3_201304_amt49_mas.jpg height: 671 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa29/m_3_1965_3_201304_amt49_mas.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 763 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa29/preview_m_3_1965_3_201304_amt49_mas.jpg height: 336 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa29/m_3_1965_5_201305_amt49_mas.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 763 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa29/mid_m_3_1965_5_201305_amt49_mas.jpg height: 671 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa29/m_3_1965_5_201305_amt49_mas.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 763 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa29/preview_m_3_1965_5_201305_amt49_mas.jpg height: 336 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa29/m_3_1965_4_201305_amt49_mas.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 763 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa29/mid_m_3_1965_4_201305_amt49_mas.jpg height: 671 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa29/m_3_1965_4_201305_amt49_mas.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 763 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa29/preview_m_3_1965_4_201305_amt49_mas.jpg height: 336 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/m_3_1965_6_201305_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1025 pixels width: 764 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/mid_m_3_1965_6_201305_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 671 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/m_3_1965_6_201305_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1025 pixels width: 764 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/preview_m_3_1965_6_201305_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 335 pixels width: 250 pixels