IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 77260 accession number: M.24-1950 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 14 January 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Dial: Circular dial plate, 10 inches in diameter, with matted brass centre engraved with two birds. Applied silvered chapter ring with minutes numbered every 5 and signed between VII and V ‘Richard Ganthony London'. The dial plate probably from a provincial 30 hour longcase clock with a square dial, as the engraved decoration is typical of that type, the plate has been made roughly circular and there are filled holes used to fix a previous chap¬ter ring. Circular dials normally consisted of a flat engraved plate silvered all over. The Ganthony chapter ring was never of that type so it probably has no original connection with the case. Pierced and blued steel hour hand, modern stamped steel minute hand of serpentine design. Movement: 8 day movement of uncertain origin and date, but not London work and probably more recent than the case. Striking train on right, with outside count wheel, winds anti-clockwise. Going train on left, with anchor escapement and seconds pendulum, winds clockwise, un-grooved, small diameter barrels to give 8 day duration with limited fall for weights. Re-used movement with spare dial foot hole near top of front plate. Design of escapement pro¬duces large pendulum arc, so pendulum hits sides of case thus rendering accurate timekeeping impossible. Case: Mahogany carcase, veneered and cross banded with figured mahogany. Typical Regency design with break arch hood and square topped trunk door. Dial glass in brass bezel fixed to turned wooden rim which is hinged to front of hood. object type: longcase 'grandmother'clock, with 8 day movement. title: longcase clock NOTES ----- type: history note value: uncertain before testator LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Bequeathed by Miss Grace F. Clarke STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/77260 CATEGORIES ------ category: clocks DATING ------ creation date: 1800 - 1825 creation date earliest: 1800 creation date latest: 1825 culture: 19th Century, Early CREATORS -------- maker: Ganthony, Richard DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 175.3 dimension: Height units: ft value: 5'9" IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/M_24_1950.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 415 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/M_24_1950.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 415 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/M_24_1950.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 415 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/preview_M_24_1950.jpg height: 446 pixels width: 250 pixels