IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 167415 accession number: M/F.17-1938 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 25 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Dial: Break-arch brass dial plate, 8 inches wide with plain centre which should be silvered. Spandrels consisting of a female head and drapery amidst scrolling foliage with matching spandrels in the arch. Silvered chapter ring without quarter hour divisions and silvered ring in arch engraved ‘James Chater/London' and ‘Strike/Silent'. Modern blued steel hands of serpentine design. Movement: 8 day movement, rack striking, with original verge escapement and engraved fixing brackets. Replaced apron piece to back cock. Exceptional, plain back plate, suggesting that it was originally hidden by a silk-backed fret in the back door. Case: Inverted bell-topped case, green japanning with fine gilt lattice design and reserves painted in natural colours with a mixture of Oriental and European figures. Fine quality decoration in un-restored condition. Fine quality gilt wood frets in side openings and spandrels of front door. Glass in back door almost certainly replacing a similar wooden fret, see under Movement. Original top handle and four finials in brass. Later, but still 18th cen¬tury, side handles fitted over painted reserves. object type: Bracket clock with break-arch dial plate; 8 day movement, rack striking. title: bracket clock NOTES ----- type: history note value: unknown before testator LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Cecil E. Byas Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/167415 CATEGORIES ------ category: clocks DATING ------ creation date: 1750 - 1754 creation date earliest: 1750 creation date latest: 1754 culture: 18th Century, Mid culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Chater, James DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 45.1 dimension: Height units: in value: 17 3/4