Maker: Unknown
White enamel dial with polychrome painting.
DIAL: White enamel on copper, three feet (cut off). Outer scale and two subsidiary dials at VI and XII. Polychrome figure of woman on left making offerings to the two small dials, a screen of trees to the right hand side of the dials. Outer scale asterisk seconds ring with gold 5 sec. dots, vertical Arabic quarter numbers. Upper date dial inside a ring, date ring of vertical Arabic odd numbers 1 to 31 separated by gold dots. Lower time dial inside ring, dotted minute ring with vertical Arabic quarter numbers, four gold dots in place of 30 at bottom. Gold dots as 5 min. marks, vertical Arabic chapters. Winding hole in dial outside 3 o'clock on time dial.
History note: Unknown before S.G. Perceval (1838-1922)
Spencer George Perceval Bequest, 1922
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1922) by Perceval, Spencer George
18th Century
Production date:
circa
AD 1790
Dial
composed of
enamel
copper
Diameter 47.5 mm
Time Dial
Diameter 18.75 mm
Calendar Dial
Diameter 19.5 mm
Accession number: PW.79-1923
Primary reference Number: 207513
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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