1592999794000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-162436 1747159757504 1582636457000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-162436 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/162436 7cc9f01b-2e7e-3fbe-baac-53a8cc5b2e6e 4 reference term-88390 adlib-term-88390 6d62df01-3cb9-330e-9a2d-43e3ae80042f clocks reference term-38291 adlib-term-38291 908da757-2b7b-32c2-988c-105884655f29 mahogany Carcase reference term-38291 adlib-term-38291 908da757-2b7b-32c2-988c-105884655f29 mahogany Cross Banding reference term-38291 adlib-term-38291 908da757-2b7b-32c2-988c-105884655f29 mahogany Veneer Height in 3 Finial Applied Arts Dial: Break-arch brass dial plate, 14 inches wide, the silvered centre engraved with scrolling foliage, and with bold rococo spandrels of a North Country type. Silvered chapter ring with the days of the month on the inner edge. Silvered lunar dial in arch with the moon's age engraved round its edge. At top of arch a curved silvered plaque engraved ‘Joseph & Ann Harrison 1772'. Rare type of tidal dial in segmental opening below dial centre. This is engraved ‘HW' (High Water), ‘HE' (High Ebb), ‘LW' (Low Water) and ‘HF' (High Flood) twice and accom¬panied by a continuous seascape with ships at High Water but not at Low Water. Pierced and blued steel hands with a simple steel calendar hand. Movement: 8 day movement with rack striking and anchor escapement. Case: Mahogany carcase veneered with figured mahogany and with mahogany cross banding to trunk door and raised plinth panel. Canted corners to plinth, fluted quarter columns to trunk, and detached fluted col¬umns having turned wooden capitals and bases to hood. Blind fret above trunk door. Blue glass panels in frieze with gilt decoration of birds and foliage. Horn-top pediment with brass paterae and central brass finial surmounted by an eagle. Square super¬structure at corners of hood. An old paper stuck on inside of trunk door states `This clock was set up in the ‘Hards', Abbey Town, Cumberland in the year 1772'. It was removed from there in 1892. It is in its original state and is attributed to ‘Porthouses' Penrith 1770. M.14-1955 1 accession number M.14-1955 162436 priref 162436 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/162436 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/162436 An old paper stuck on inside the trunk door `This clock was set up in the ‘Hards', Abbey Town, Cumberland in the year 1772'. It was removed from there in 1892. It is in its original state and is attributed to ‘Porthouses' Penrith 1770. label reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Given by Lt. Col. Edward Limb reference agent-183470 adlib-agent-183470 c54b91fb-9a18-3071-91eb-9133f910bbb9 Limb, Edward 1955 1955 1955-10-19 given Entry date: 1955-10-19 1772 CE 1772 1772 clockmaker reference agent-181193 adlib-agent-181193 da4c200a-0240-3214-acbb-a788f293bbe6 Porthouse A typical Lancashire type case, see Documentation, Roberts, 1990. reference term-120902 adlib-term-120902 7ad5748a-4503-39c2-9b0e-6460b2494524 18th Century, third quarter reference term-107437 adlib-term-107437 96f4b0d1-fc11-39ff-ae91-1b23d888d479 George III reference term-124573 adlib-term-124573 3174737b-9c08-3c10-884e-d939f5161634 literal England England country Penrith Height cm 243.8 Height ft 8 reference term-117132 adlib-term-117132 bce8fe0a-f1a1-3abb-97cf-3206e5ebe7f1 longcase clock history note Joseph and Ann Harrison, 'Hards', Abbey Town, Cumberland, from 1772-1892; uncertain until donor reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Cf. p. 125fig. 148 A & B 125 reference publication-6612 adlib-publication-6612 f885f416-9d82-3890-9220-568a4f1565d5 British Longcase Clocks reference publication-413 adlib-publication-413 dbf727a1-4880-3480-ba53-c97e412167fa Sotheby's Catalogue

reference term-117132 adlib-term-117132 bce8fe0a-f1a1-3abb-97cf-3206e5ebe7f1 longcase clock

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