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Watch: PW.79-1923

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Maker(s)

Maker: Unknown

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Description

White enamel dial with polychrome painting.

DIAL: White enamel on copper, three feet (cut off). Outer scale and two subsidiary dials at VI and XII. Polychrome figure of woman on left making offerings to the two small dials, a screen of trees to the right hand side of the dials. Outer scale asterisk seconds ring with gold 5 sec. dots, vertical Arabic quarter numbers. Upper date dial inside a ring, date ring of vertical Arabic odd numbers 1 to 31 separated by gold dots. Lower time dial inside ring, dotted minute ring with vertical Arabic quarter numbers, four gold dots in place of 30 at bottom. Gold dots as 5 min. marks, vertical Arabic chapters. Winding hole in dial outside 3 o'clock on time dial.

Notes

History note: Unknown before S.G. Perceval (1838-1922)

Legal notes

Spencer George Perceval Bequest, 1922

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1922) by Perceval, Spencer George

Dating

18th Century
Production date: circa AD 1790

Components of the work

Dial composed of enamel copper Diameter 47.5 mm
Time Dial Diameter 18.75 mm
Calendar Dial Diameter 19.5 mm

Identification numbers

Accession number: PW.79-1923
Primary reference Number: 207513
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Audit data

Created: Wednesday 6 January 2016 Updated: Wednesday 28 March 2018 Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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