IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 137656 accession number: M.2-1965 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 31 March 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Dial: gilt dial plate 10 inches square with engraved wheatear border, matted centre and cherub spandrels. Silver skeleton chapter ring with four o'clock shown IV, indicating that the clock has roman striking, and the minutes numbered individually. Silver sec¬onds ring. Faceted blued steel hands of the second type as classified by Lee, the circular hour hand. The day of the month shown through a square aperture immediately about VI. Signed at the base of the dial ‘Joseph Knibb Londini fecit'. Movement: Month duration movement with five wheel going train and four wheel striking train. Roman strik¬ing, a Knibb invention which utilizes a small high pitched bell for the ‘I's and a larger, deeper toned bell for the ‘V's. This requires only 30 blows for twelve hours compared with 78 for conventional stri¬king, hence the use of a four wheel striking train. Butterfly nut adjustment at top of pendulum suspen¬sion. Separate cock for pallet arbor. The movement was not provided with maintaining power. Case: Carcase of oak veneered with ebony except for sides of plinth which are veneered with ebonised fruit wood. Ebonised twist columns to hood. Hood con¬verted from rising to sliding forward but the grooves remain in the hood. The top board has been replaced, probably because the original contained a sound aperture covered with hessian. The side win¬dows are of the early type, the same height as the front opening. There are very finely carved ebonised crestings to front and sides of the hood. The trunk door and sides with raised panels. The trunk door lock and brass hinges are later replace¬ments. The bun feet also are probably replacements. Fine gilt metal mounts:- corinthian capitals and bases, swags between the capitals, finials, rare grotesque mask mount above trunk door and lenticle frame. object type: Longcase clock with month movement and Roman notation striking. title: longcase 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: Bequeathed by S.E. Prestige STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/137656 CATEGORIES ------ category: clock DATING ------ creation date: 1678 - 1678 creation date earliest: 1678 creation date latest: 1678 culture: 17th Century, Late culture: Charles II CREATORS -------- maker: Knibb, Joseph DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 209.6 dimension: Height units: ft value: 6'10 ½ CITATIONS -------- Knibb family, Clockmakers Annual Report of the Fitzwilliam Museum Syndicate for the year 1965 Early English Clocks : a discussion of domestic clocks up to the beginning of the eighteenth century --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/M_2_1965.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 409 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/M_2_1965.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 409 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/M_2_1965.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 409 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/preview_M_2_1965.jpg height: 465 pixels width: 250 pixels