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Watch: PW.81-1923

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Maker(s)

Maker: Unknown

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Description

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.

Notes

History note: Unknown before S.G. Perceval (1838-1922)

Legal notes

Spencer George Perceval Bequest, 1922

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1922) by Perceval, Spencer George

Dating

18th Century
Production date: circa AD 1780

Components of the work

Dial composed of enamel ( white) copper Diameter 45 mm
Time Dial Diameter 21.25 mm

Identification numbers

Accession number: PW.81-1923
Primary reference Number: 207515
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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

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