Clockmaker: Atkins, Francis
Bracket clock with 8 day movement, rack striking.
Dial: Break-arch brass dial plate, 7 inches wide, with rococo spandrels and arch spandrels. Silvered chap¬ter ring without quarter hour markings and silvered Strike/Silent ring in arch. Silvered sunken plaque below XII signed ‘Frans. Atkins London'. Pierced and blued steel hands of serpentine design.
Movement: 8 day movement, rack striking with hour repeating and original late-type verge escapement. Engraved back plate.
Case: Inverted bell-topped case with canted corners. Cream japanning with fine gilt lattice design and chinoiserie decoration but without any raised work. Five plinths for finials, the central one lacking frets which were originally fitted each side of it. Brass pineapple finials, side lifting handles and moulded feet.
History note: Unknown before testator
L.D. Cunliffe Bequest, 1937
Height: 54.6 cm
Height: 21½ in
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1937) by Cunliffe, Leonard Daneham
18th Century, Late
George III
Production date:
circa
AD 1775
Case
composed of
lacquer
( not Oriental lacquer)
wood
Finials
composed of
brass (alloy)
Accession number: M/F.13-1938
Primary reference Number: 140028
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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