Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Maker:
Taylor, Jasper
Case maker:
Aveling, Daniel
(Possibly)
Entities
Categories
Description
Verge watch in pair case.
Movement: Full plate movement signed 'Jasper Taylor 370 in Holbourn LONDON'. Balance cock with pierced and engraved table with large blued steel end piece with red faceted end stone, mask at neck, engraved foot. Brass balance. Engraved slide plate, silver regulator disc, radial Arabic figures 5 to 30. Pierced fusee iron post, polished steel case bolt and spring with vertical pierced foot, nib in brass edge. Potance, with moulding on end of foot, riveted to plate. Rectangular potance riveted to back plate. Pillar plate with four square baluster pillars. Under dial scratched with 'WW, JWd. 1819' and 'Mkjh 2/79'. Fusee and chain, tangent set-up under barrel, barrel with one lip. Verge escapement. Train planted anti-clockwise.
DIAL: White enamel on copper, four feet. Radial Arabic quarter figures, dotted minute ring, short radial Roman chapter.
BRASS EDGE: Gilt brass, three feet, hole over case bolt head, for nib.
HANDS: Gold beetle and poker.
INNER CASE: Silver gilt, inside with London HM 1744. Maker's mark incuse intalic (small angle) 'D A', scratch marks 'm & z' '1/50'. Filled hole in side of box, in line with case bolt.
OUTER CASE (A): Tortoise-shell covered outer case with gilt ring, brass pins near edge of body and centrally on bezel.
WATCH PAPER (B): White paper, in shield held by seated woman, 'John Bishop / Watch & Clock / Maker / SHERBOR', around top edge 'A Variety of Jewellery, Silver Plate & Gold Rings, both Mourning & Motto' and around bottom edge 'Engraving neatly Executed', on back in black ink 'Nov. 1832'
Notes
History note: Unknown before S.G. Perceval (1838-1922)
Legal notes
Spencer George Perceval Bequest, 1922
Components of the work
Dial
composed of
enamel
( on copper)
copper
Brass Edge
composed of
gilt brass
Inner Case
composed of
silver gilt
Diameter 41.75 mm
Height 53 mm
Thickness 26.25 mm
Movement
composed of
iron
silver
steel
Outer Case
composed of
tortoise shell
Diameter 49.25 mm
Height 57 mm
Thickness 28 mm
Width 51 mm
Hands
composed of
gold
Movement, Case Pins
composed of
brass (alloy)
Movement (back Plate)
Diameter 33.75 mm
Movement (pillar Plate)
Diameter 35 mm
Movement (brass Edge)
Diameter 36.5 mm
Movement (pillar Height)
Height 7 mm
Inscription or legends present
- Text: 'Jasper Taylor 370 in Holbourn LONDON'
- Location: Movement
- Type: Maker's name
- Text: 'WW, JWd. 1819' and 'Mkjh 2/79'
- Location: Movement, under dial
- Method of creation: Scratched
- Type: Mark
- Location: Inner case
- Type: Hallmark
- Text: incuse intalic (small angle) 'D A'
- Location: Inner case
- Type: Maker's mark
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: PW.26 & A & B-1923
Primary reference Number: 207295
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Wednesday 9 December 2015
Updated: Wednesday 14 March 2018
Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
