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Table Clock, French, c. 1600

Inventory Number 40473


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.40473

Item type
Object
Primary inscriptions
Unsigned and undated.
Object type
Clock
Dimensions
Height: 110mm Width: 50mm
Inventory No
40473

Description

Verge escapement with dumb-bell foliot (hog bristle regulator now missing); fusee with gut. A coat of arms is engraved on the bottom the the case. Case and dial are ornamentally engraved, the latter with an illustration of a monk wearing spectacles and reading a book.