IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 139956 accession number: M.3-1957 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Dial: The dial consists of a shallow rotating drum carry¬ing a white enamel ring dial with black markings. This has the hours I-XII twice in roman numerals, with the hours divided into quarters and five min¬utes. The half hours are marked by fleur-de-lys and the half quarters by dots. There is a fixed arrow design hour hand and a hidden minute hand within the spherical case for accurate setting. Movement: 8 day movement striking the hours on a bell, with dead beat verge escapement and very short pen¬dulum with silk suspension. Case: In the form of a sphere supported by figures of the Three Graces. The sphere divided in two horizontal¬ly by an opening to display the dial and enamelled dark blue with foliate ormolu mounts. It is sur¬mounted by a seated ormolu Cupid holding aloft a sheaf of arrows. The Three Graces face inwards and support the sphere with raised arms, whilst their hands hold swags of flowers which hang down and surround the figures. The base supporting them consists of a triangular block of white marble with concave sides decorated with arabesque and acanthus mounts and with three tapering feet, all in fine quality ormolu work, the figures being particularly well executed. object type: Clock with 8 day movement. Round case in the form of a sphere supported by the Three Graces, surmounted by a seated Cupid. title: table clock LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Lady Mildred Fitzgerald STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/139956 CATEGORIES ------ category: clock DATING ------ creation date: 1780 - 1800 creation date earliest: 1780 creation date latest: 1800 culture: 18th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Anonymous maker: Anonymous DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height value: ? CITATIONS -------- Highly Import¬ant French Furniture ...Clocks.. Early Neo-Classicism in France Nineteenth Century Decorative Arts, 18 and 21 March 1988 The Nineteenth Century Nineteenth Century Furniture, Decorations and Works of Art Clocks, Watches, Mechanical Music & Instruments of Science and Technology Nineteenth and twentieth Century Furniture and Decorations Important French Furniture ---