Maker: Unknown
Painted enamel dial
DIAL: White enamel on copper, three feet (cut-off). Small central time dial with polychrome border, designed as a frieze with three oval portraits, around time dial. Time dial with short line minute ring with 3 dots at quarters and large dot at 5 mins., vertical Arabic chapters. Winding hole outside 2 o'clock. Enamel ground in flat chamfer around top half edge.
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 1780
Dial
composed of
enamel
( white)
copper
Diameter 45 mm
Time Dial
Diameter 21.25 mm
Accession number: PW.81-1923
Primary reference Number: 207515
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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University of Cambridge}}
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