IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 167414 accession number: M/F.6-1931 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 10 December 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Dial: Break arch brass dial plate, 6 inches wide with matted centre and rare cornucopia spandrels (C & W No.29). Silvered chapter ring without quarter hour divisions and in the arch two silvered rings, one for pendulum rise and fall adjustment, the other for Strike/Silent. Between the rings a shaped silvered plaque engraved ‘Jason Cox Long Acre LONDON'. The rest of the arch filled with formalised engraving. Nicely cut and blued steel hands. Movement: 8 day movement, rack striking with quarter repeating on two bells and original verge escape¬ment. Back plate plain except for signature `Jason Cox Long Acre London', thus suggesting that it was designed to be hidden by a silk-backed fret in the back door. Case: Inverted bell-topped case, ebonised. Spandrels of front door and side openings blocked with ebonised panels. These and the back door opening would have had silk-backed wooden frets originally. No metal mounts except a brass carrying handle. object type: Bracket clock with 8 day movement and rack striking. title: bracket clock NOTES ----- type: history note value: unknown before donor LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/167414 CATEGORIES ------ category: clocks DATING ------ creation date: 1750 - 1750 creation date earliest: 1750 creation date latest: 1750 culture: 18th Century, Mid culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Cox, Jason DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 44.5 dimension: Height units: in value: 17 5/8