IDENTIFIERS
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id:	140028
accession number:	M/F.13-1938

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 25 February 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Dial: Break-arch brass dial plate, 7 inches wide, with rococo spandrels and arch spandrels.  Silvered chap¬ter ring without quarter hour markings and silvered Strike/Silent ring in arch.  Silvered sunken plaque below XII signed ‘Frans. Atkins London'. Pierced and blued steel hands of serpentine design.

Movement: 8 day movement, rack striking with hour repeating and original late-type verge escapement.  Engraved back plate.

Case: Inverted bell-topped case with canted corners.  Cream japanning with fine gilt lattice design and chinoiserie decoration but without any raised work.  Five plinths for finials, the central one lacking frets which were originally fitted each side of it.  Brass pineapple finials, side lifting handles and moulded feet.
object type: Bracket clock with 8 day movement, rack striking.
title:	bracket clock

NOTES
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type: history note
value: unknown before testator


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
creditline: L.D. Cunliffe Bequest, 1937

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/140028





CATEGORIES
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category: clocks

DATING
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creation date:	1775 - 1775
creation date earliest:	1775
creation date latest:	1775
culture:	18th Century, Late
culture:	George III

CREATORS
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maker: Atkins, Francis

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 54.6

dimension: Height
units: in
value: 21½



CITATIONS
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Recent Acquisitions 1991
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