Longcase Clock
1680-1690 (made)
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Dial:
10-inch square brass dial with matting, the centre having an engraved Tudor Rose design. Silvered chapter ring with Roman hour numerals, engraved detailed half-quarters, a minute chapter with divisions for each minute and Arabic numerals every five, and an inner portion with divisions for quarters and half hours. The bottom of this chapter ring around “VI” is engraved William Newton Londini Fecit. Subsidiary seconds dial below twelve with a chapter ring carrying divisions for the seconds, Arabic numerals for every five. Above “VI” is an engraved, chamfered square calendar aperture, the date being indicated by Arabic numerals engraved on silvered ring located behind the dial. The dial corners have cast brass, winged cherub head spandrels. The dial feet are pinned to the front plate of the movement. Pierced steel hands.
Scratchings on the u/s of the dial: “Clened & Repd W. Bury of Hatfield May 28 - 1873”
Movement:
Brass and steel weight driven two-train movement, with count wheel (or locking plate) striking on bell. Bell nut is later hexagonal shape. The count wheel is located on the outside of the back plate on an extension of the striking barrel arbor. Five pillars of finned form are riveted to the back plate and pinned to the front. Where present, wheel collets tend to be of deep, semi-circular profile; arbors are non-parallel in section, tending to fatten towards their centres. The escape wheel now solid, i.e. devoid of crossings (spokes), is mounted with a semi-circular collet. Anchor recoil escapement with a pallet frame of asymmetric, late appearance mounted on its arbor with a late ‘T’ profile collet. The crutch has a substantial, later appearance. The back plate has one set of vacant screw holes at the back cock location. The fly is of unusual shape and clearly shows repairs; pinion leaf cuts on the fly arbor extend either side of the long pinion into the arbor. A circle corresponding to the escape wheel is scribed into the outside front plate and there are scratchings also: “SW & RB Hatfield May 28 1873.
Description and notes by Francis Brodie, c. 2008
10-inch square brass dial with matting, the centre having an engraved Tudor Rose design. Silvered chapter ring with Roman hour numerals, engraved detailed half-quarters, a minute chapter with divisions for each minute and Arabic numerals every five, and an inner portion with divisions for quarters and half hours. The bottom of this chapter ring around “VI” is engraved William Newton Londini Fecit. Subsidiary seconds dial below twelve with a chapter ring carrying divisions for the seconds, Arabic numerals for every five. Above “VI” is an engraved, chamfered square calendar aperture, the date being indicated by Arabic numerals engraved on silvered ring located behind the dial. The dial corners have cast brass, winged cherub head spandrels. The dial feet are pinned to the front plate of the movement. Pierced steel hands.
Scratchings on the u/s of the dial: “Clened & Repd W. Bury of Hatfield May 28 - 1873”
Movement:
Brass and steel weight driven two-train movement, with count wheel (or locking plate) striking on bell. Bell nut is later hexagonal shape. The count wheel is located on the outside of the back plate on an extension of the striking barrel arbor. Five pillars of finned form are riveted to the back plate and pinned to the front. Where present, wheel collets tend to be of deep, semi-circular profile; arbors are non-parallel in section, tending to fatten towards their centres. The escape wheel now solid, i.e. devoid of crossings (spokes), is mounted with a semi-circular collet. Anchor recoil escapement with a pallet frame of asymmetric, late appearance mounted on its arbor with a late ‘T’ profile collet. The crutch has a substantial, later appearance. The back plate has one set of vacant screw holes at the back cock location. The fly is of unusual shape and clearly shows repairs; pinion leaf cuts on the fly arbor extend either side of the long pinion into the arbor. A circle corresponding to the escape wheel is scribed into the outside front plate and there are scratchings also: “SW & RB Hatfield May 28 1873.
Description and notes by Francis Brodie, c. 2008
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 5 parts.
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| Materials and techniques | Walnut with marquetry, brass and silver dial |
| Brief description | Longcase clock of walnut with marquetry, brass and silvered dial, by William Newton, London, 1680-90 |
| Physical description | Dial: 10-inch square brass dial with matting, the centre having an engraved Tudor Rose design. Silvered chapter ring with Roman hour numerals, engraved detailed half-quarters, a minute chapter with divisions for each minute and Arabic numerals every five, and an inner portion with divisions for quarters and half hours. The bottom of this chapter ring around “VI” is engraved William Newton Londini Fecit. Subsidiary seconds dial below twelve with a chapter ring carrying divisions for the seconds, Arabic numerals for every five. Above “VI” is an engraved, chamfered square calendar aperture, the date being indicated by Arabic numerals engraved on silvered ring located behind the dial. The dial corners have cast brass, winged cherub head spandrels. The dial feet are pinned to the front plate of the movement. Pierced steel hands. Scratchings on the u/s of the dial: “Clened & Repd W. Bury of Hatfield May 28 - 1873” Movement: Brass and steel weight driven two-train movement, with count wheel (or locking plate) striking on bell. Bell nut is later hexagonal shape. The count wheel is located on the outside of the back plate on an extension of the striking barrel arbor. Five pillars of finned form are riveted to the back plate and pinned to the front. Where present, wheel collets tend to be of deep, semi-circular profile; arbors are non-parallel in section, tending to fatten towards their centres. The escape wheel now solid, i.e. devoid of crossings (spokes), is mounted with a semi-circular collet. Anchor recoil escapement with a pallet frame of asymmetric, late appearance mounted on its arbor with a late ‘T’ profile collet. The crutch has a substantial, later appearance. The back plate has one set of vacant screw holes at the back cock location. The fly is of unusual shape and clearly shows repairs; pinion leaf cuts on the fly arbor extend either side of the long pinion into the arbor. A circle corresponding to the escape wheel is scribed into the outside front plate and there are scratchings also: “SW & RB Hatfield May 28 1873. Description and notes by Francis Brodie, c. 2008 |
| Marks and inscriptions | 'William Newton Londini Fecit' (On bottom of chapter ring around numeral 'VI') |
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| Credit line | Bequeathed by Miss Dorothy Betty Simpson |
| Object history | Bequeathed by Miss Dorothy Betty Simpson January 1976 inventory and valuation of Miss Simpson's estate Includes this description "17th century walnut and marquetry cased grandson clock having a brass and silvered dial with a second hand and date aperture by Wm. Newton of London" (value: £4,000). The clock was located in the Drawing Room at Millstones. 24 August 1976 memo, John Hardy lists the clock among 9 pieces to acquire "for study purposes and provincial museums" 20 October 1976 inventory and valuation by Phillips after the death of Miss Simpson values the clock at £2,000. Remarks: Could it be that Bury of Hatfield replaced the escape wheel and pallets in 1873? Otherwise the movement is 1690s—1700s and fine. Description and notes by Francis Brodie, c. 2008 |
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| Accession number | W.42:1 to 5-1976 |
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| Record created | January 25, 2001 |
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