IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 118363 accession number: M.2 & A-C-1836 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 17 March 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: WATCH MOVEMENT: Full plate movement engraved 'Wm WEBSTER EXCHANGE ALLEY 2553' and on cap 'Wm WEBSTER LONDON 2553.' Balance cock, table engraved and pierced with lace edge, grotesque griffin mask on neck, polished steel end piece and diamond end stone, engraved foot with lace edge. Polished steel balance. Slide plate engraved with pierced lace edge, silver regulation disc with Arabic figures 5 to 30. Pierced fusee iron post. Polished steel case bolt with solid wings, in slot in plate, nib through dial. Potance with moulding at end of the foot. Pillar plate with four square baluster pillars, third wheel bar, recessed centre wheel. Under dial side stamped '2553' [partly obscured by case bolt spring], min. wheel pinned to post. Fusee and chain, one lip on barrel, tangent set up under barrel. Cylinder escapement, brass wheel. Train planted clockwise. BRASS EDGE: Gilt brass, plain edge, four feet, dial recessed. [One hinge loop missing.] CAP: Gilt brass, engraved on oval table as above, winding and regulation pipes, regulation sector. Polished steel clip. '2553' scratched inside table. DIAL: White enamel on copper, three feet. Radial Arabic 5 min. figures, ladder min. ring, radial Roman chapters, inner ring, bold painting. Hands: Gold, Louis XV type, no tails. INNER CASE: Gold, plain. Body with London hallmark for 1761, stamped '2553,' maker's mark, incuse 'SG' under cresting. Pendant plain with applied flower on top, stirrup bow with two grooves on outside and projection on top. OUTER CASE (A): Gold repoussé bezel and body, the front decorated with Venus presenting Arms to Aeneas from Virgil's Aeneid, surrounded by Rococo scrolls. Body with maker's mark inside as inner case, scene of ? , signed at bottom 'G. M. Moser. f.' WATCH PAPERS (B): a. Muslin?, polychrome painted with two roses with two buds surrounded by garland. b. White paper printed 'All sorts of / Repeating & other / WATCHES & CLOCKS / Made and sold by / W. Webster / in Exchange Alley / LONDON', edge with equation of time, in months. CHATELAINE (C): Gold, cast with rococo designs, back of large central plaque with incused 'H' under a vertical line of five chevrons. Side drops, left hand with key and seal, cut with coat of arms, right hand with two seals, one cornelian cut with head of a philosopher, and one rock crystal cut with a head of a bearded man, possibly Socrates'. Centre drop at top with heart-shaped locket containing woven hair under under glass, above which is a white enamelled gold ribbon with gold lettering 'TOT SEUL ME FIXE.' object type: Watch and chatelaine. The gold watch case embossed and chased on the front with Venus presenting Arms to Aeneas watched by a river god and surrounded by Rococo scrolls title: watch NOTES ----- type: history note value: A note from Miss Whitehurst stated that the watch and chatelaine were 'Presented to my mother on her marriage in 1755'. This cannot be correct, unless it referred only to the chatelaine, as the case is bears the date letter for 1761-2. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Miss Whitehurst STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/118363 PEOPLE ------------------- Venus Aeneas SUBJECTS ------------------- Venus presenting arms to Aeneas Venus presenting arms to Aeneas CATEGORIES ------ category: watches DATING ------ creation date: 1761 - 1762 creation date earliest: 1761 creation date latest: 1762 culture: 18th Century, third quarter# culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Goujon, Stephen maker: Moser, George Michael maker: Webster, William (watchmaker) EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment CITATIONS -------- Classical Gems, Ancient and Modern Intaglios and Cameos in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge The Art of the Gold Chaser in Eighteenth-Century London Treasures of the Fitzwilliam Museum Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment Some Account of the Worshipfull Company of Clockmakers of the City of London London Goldsmiths, 1697-1837: Their marks and lives, from original registers at Goldsmiths' Hall and other sources Britten's Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers Britten's Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers (6th ed) Mary Moser --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/M_2_20_26_20A_C_1836_1_201406_kly25_mas.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 726 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/mid_M_2_20_26_20A_C_1836_1_201406_kly25_mas.jpg height: 705 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/M_2_20_26_20A_C_1836_1_201406_kly25_mas.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 726 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: 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