Lantern Clock
1676 (Made)
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A silver lantern clock signed by Edward Webb, and made in Church Stoke, Somerset, where Webb worked between 1660 and 1693. This example is dated 1676. Webb died in 1694.
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 2 parts.
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| Materials and techniques | Silver, engraved with brass movement |
| Brief description | Chiming lantern clock, silver, with clock weight on rope and pulley |
| Physical description | Case: The case rests on four ball feet, and the dial is engraved with flowers and with strawberry leaves. Above is an openwork key-pattern surmounted by the royal supporters flanking a crowned shield engraved with I P. On either side of the case there are similar crestings but unengraved. The cresting above the dial is signed “Edward Webbe in Church Stoke 1676”. The bell-straps rise from four vases, with a fifth vase surmounting the whole assembly. Dial: Silver dial-plate, 15.6 x 13.6cm. Silver applied chapter-ring 15.3cm diameter, 2.5cm broad, with roman hours, quarter-hour marks and fleurs-de-lis as half hour marks. Heavy steel hour and minute hands, the latter an addition, the former probably a renewal. Originally with hour hand only. Movement: Going training front part of movement, the pulley with a ratchet, verge escapement with 15T escape wheel. Bob pendulum 19.8cm long; threaded at bottom but with bob missing. Front bearing of a verge a pivot, rear bearing a knife-edge. Present motion-work: 12:48 reduction to hour hand, 48:16 speed-up to minute hand. At centre, quarter-chiming train on 6 bells, with one peal at first quarter, two different pearls at the second quarter, etc. The count-wheel integral with the chime-barrel (indentations in the open end of the barrel). No ratchet on pulley. Locking-plate striking train at rear of movement (released by a pin from the quarters count-wheel) with outside count-wheel. Pulley with ratchet. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Edward Webbe in Church Stoke 1676 (Inscribed on the cresting above the dial. Church Stoke is in Somerset) |
| Credit line | Given by Reverend E G Winstanley |
| Object history | Bequeathed by the Reverend E G Winstanley |
| Historical context | Lantern clocks were used as domestic time keepers, wall hung, usually in the hall where the sound of the bell could be heard throughout the house. |
| Production | Like other lantern clocks produced by Edward Webb (d.1695) this clock is inscribed with the year in which it was made, 1676 |
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| Summary | A silver lantern clock signed by Edward Webb, and made in Church Stoke, Somerset, where Webb worked between 1660 and 1693. This example is dated 1676. Webb died in 1694. |
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| Accession number | M.45:1, 2-1946 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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