Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Maker:
Quare, Daniel
Entities
Categories
Description
Quarter repeating movement
MOVEMENT: Full plate movement engraved 'D Quare London 420'. Balance cock with pierced and engraved table with side cut-out over regulation dial, ears, shell engraved on neck, foot engraved and pierced with narrow border. Steel end piece with diamond end stone. Steel balance. Slide plate pierced and engraved, silver regulation dial with radial Arabic figures 5 to 30. One cap post missing. Fusee iron post lyre-shaped with pierced base. Potance and counter-potance riveted to plate. Narrow repeating spring barrel engraved. Steel piece protecting fusee and main wheel from push piece. Pillar plate with five turned baluster pillars. Third wheel recessed. Under dial, two posts with side tapped holes to fix brass edge. Fusee and chain with tangent set-up under barrel, barrel with one lip. Verge escapement. Train planted anti-clockwise. Repeating hour rack between repeating main wheel and barrel. Hammers planted clockwise. Runners planted anti-clockwise, five pinions, depthing pinion.
BRASS EDGE: Secured by two screws through sides, acanthus leaf border engraved on edge. Case bolt projecting through slot. Slot for pulse piece (missing). On the underside are four holes with pin slots unused, new holes for present dial.
DIAL: White enamel on copper, three feet. Radial 5 minute Arabic figures, ladder minute ring, radial Roman chapters, inner circle.
HANDS: Blued steel, beetle and poker.
REPEATING MECHANISM: 1/4 repeating work with repeating rack. All-or-nothing lever moved by top pivot of hour rack and star wheel. Hour rack between plates.
Notes
History note: Unknown before S.G. Perceval (1838-1922)
Legal notes
Spencer George Perceval Bequest, 1922
Components of the work
Dial
composed of
enamel
( white)
copper
Movement, End Stone
composed of
diamond
Movement
composed of
silver
brass (alloy)
Thickness 26.5 mm
Movement, Hands
composed of
steel
Movement (top Plate)
Diameter 34.25 mm
Movement (pillar Plate)
Diameter 37.25 mm
Movement (brass Edge)
Diameter 41.75 mm
Movement (pillar)
Height 7 mm
Hands
Inscription or legends present
- Text: 'D Quare London 420'
- Location: Movement
- Method of creation: Engraved
- Type: Maker's name
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: PW.71-1923
Primary reference Number: 207505
Movement no.: 420
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Wednesday 6 January 2016
Updated: Wednesday 28 March 2018
Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
