Bracket Clock
Clockmaker: Cox, Jason
Bracket clock with 8 day movement and rack striking.
Dial: Break arch brass dial plate, 6 inches wide with matted centre and rare cornucopia spandrels (C & W No.29). Silvered chapter ring without quarter hour divisions and in the arch two silvered rings, one for pendulum rise and fall adjustment, the other for Strike/Silent. Between the rings a shaped silvered plaque engraved ‘Jason Cox Long Acre LONDON'. The rest of the arch filled with formalised engraving. Nicely cut and blued steel hands.
Movement: 8 day movement, rack striking with quarter repeating on two bells and original verge escape¬ment. Back plate plain except for signature `Jason Cox Long Acre London', thus suggesting that it was designed to be hidden by a silk-backed fret in the back door.
Case: Inverted bell-topped case, ebonised. Spandrels of front door and side openings blocked with ebonised panels. These and the back door opening would have had silk-backed wooden frets originally. No metal mounts except a brass carrying handle.
History note: Unknown before donor
Given by Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco
Height: 44.5 cm
Height: 17 5/8 in
Method of acquisition: Given (1931-10-04) by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn
18th Century, Mid
George II
Production date:
circa
AD 1750
Case
composed of
ebony
Handle
composed of
brass (alloy)
Accession number: M/F.6-1931
Primary reference Number: 167414
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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