IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 167270 accession number: M.7 & A-C-1948 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 24 August 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Cylinder singing bird watch in gold and enamel case. MOVEMENT: Full plate movement engraved 'HILRE. BASSEREAU N. 532 INT ET FEC. T'. Top plate shaped to accomodate bellows and pipe. Polished steel lever work. Central cylindrical box with painted polychrome enamel lid, depicting a bird on a branch against a background of a moor with mountains behind. Lid opens to reveal a gilt plate engraved with stems and flowers, with opening to take the bird. The bird (A), which pivots up and rotates when the lid is opened, has a brass body covered with feathers, and has articulated beak and wings. Pillar plate with three gilt, cylindrical pillars and one rectangular pillar of blued steel. Polished steel balance cock, open table, polished steel coquette over polished steel regulator. Gold balance. Polished steel fusee set-up ratchet (for bird song) and winding-up wheels. Polished steel time winding click. Bar for time. Second and third wheels, second wheel recessed. Gilt brass cock for song 'balance' fly, fly in hole plate. Plate edge engraved. Applied time dial at 6 o'clock. Going barrel, and small time train. Ruby cylinder escapement, steel escape. wheel. Time train planted anti-clockwise. Song train with fusee and chain, stack of four cams driven by idler, two cam followers pumped, after one cam revolution, by cam above plate. One cam follower controls pipe length (note) and raises and lowers bird, other follower controls air to whistle, and controls bird's wings and beak. Train speed controlled by endless-screw and 'balance' fly. Song train planted anti-clockwise. DIAL: Gold. Outer dotted minute ring, vertical applied silver Arabic chapters set with diamonds, inner ring of applied diamonds, centre matted. HANDS: Blued steel, Breguet type. CASE: Gold and enamel. Cylindrical body, outside having ring of diamond shapes, enamelled in blue with gold design, and circles, enamelled in black with gold designs. Hinged back cover with outer ring of diamond shapes, decorated with gold and black enamel, a circle of blue enamel stars then a ring of black enamel with gold decoration around bird plaque. Front cover as back, but small time dial at 6 o'clock with ring of black enamel, with gold decoration. Plain gold pendant, wasted stem, round top, with fixed push piece, oval bow with ball ends. Maker's mark 'JS' or 'IS' with a pellet above and below within a lozenge. Assay mark for a second standard gold 1798-1809. Exercise mark for medium-sized gold and silver 1798-1809. An illegible mark with a 2 on the right side. Impressed mark '150'. Dealer's scratch mark '55041'. Bow of later date, after 1821. Stamped with the head of a horned cow, a dog's head looking to the right, and a ram's head looking to the left. KEYS: Two (B & C) title: watch NOTES ----- type: history note value: Alexander H.B. Beresford Hope to whom given by his mother, Lady Beresford Hope in 1841, the year he came of age; by descent to the donor LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Miss Mildred Beresford Hope STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/167270 SUBJECTS ------------------- bird singing bird singing CATEGORIES ------ category: watches DATING ------ creation date: 1798 - 1809 creation date earliest: 1798 creation date latest: 1809 culture: 18th Century, Late-19th Century, Early# CREATORS -------- maker: Bassereau, Jean Hillaire DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: mm value: 73 dimension: Thickness units: mm value: 19 dimension: Width units: mm value: 61.75 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Tempus, The Art of Time CITATIONS -------- Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World Dictionnaire des Horlogers Français Antique Dealer and Collectors Guide (September 1979) Singing Bird Watches --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/m_7_20_26_20A_C_1948_1_201507_mfj22_dc2.jpg height: 1025 pixels width: 826 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/mid_m_7_20_26_20A_C_1948_1_201507_mfj22_dc2.jpg height: 620 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/m_7_20_26_20A_C_1948_1_201507_mfj22_dc2.jpg height: 1025 pixels width: 826 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/preview_m_7_20_26_20A_C_1948_1_201507_mfj22_dc2.jpg height: 310 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/large_m_7_20_26_20A_C_1948_2_201507_mfj22_dc2.jpg height: 803 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: 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