Asset ID:
4942
CMS Object ID:
390972
Accession Number:
WA1947.191.31
Title:
Oval gilt-brass and silver cased verge watch with astronomical dial and sun-rise sun-set table
Object Name:
clock, timepiece
Associated person(s) + dates:
Gribelin, Abraham (1589 - 1671) (maker)
Object dating:
c. 1630 ; 1630
Associated place(s):
Loir-et-Cher (place of creation)
Dimensions:
case 8.31 cm (length) ; case 5.41 cm (width) ; case 3.19 cm (thickness) ; movement 4.2 cm (length) ; movement 3.71 cm (width) ; pillar 1.02 cm (height)
Materials/ techniques:
case; gilt-brass, silver
Responsible department:
Western Art
Single/ multiple object:
Single
Asset copyright notice:
© Ashmolean Museum
Key words:
- 1-12
- 17th
- 24-29
- abraham
- accomplished
- age
- amsterdam
- animals
- antiquarian
- aperture
- appropriate
- ashmolean
- aspectarium
- astronomical
- back
- balance
- baluster
- band
- barrel
- bequest
- berlin
- blois
- blued-steel
- border
- bottom
- calendar
- captain
- case
- cast
- central
- centre
- century
- chapter-ring
- children
- circle
- circles
- click
- clockmaker
- cock
- collection
- combret
- concentric
- count-wheel
- cover
- covers
- date
- days
- decorated
- degrees
- depiction
- dial
- dialwith
- die
- disc
- edge
- engraved
- engraver
- ensemble
- escapement
- europe
- father
- festeau
- fig
- figs
- fine
- fine-quality
- finial
- first
- fixed
- foliate
- francis
- fusee
- geared
- gerhard
- gilt-brass
- gribelin
- grotesques
- group
- gut
- h.g
- half
- half-figures
- half-hour
- hand
- handbooks
- high
- history
- horology
- hour
- hours
- i-xii
- ill.57-60
- impressive
- inside
- j.f
- judith
- juno
- kendal
- king
- könig
- latitude
- lid
- line
- literature
- living
- louis
- lyons
- mainspring
- maker
- mallett
- marks
- metal
- minerva
- months
- moon
- movement
- museum
- north
- northern
- notes
- numbered
- née
- ofthe
- ornament
- ornate
- orpheus
- oval
- panels
- part
- pendant
- phase
- phases
- pierre
- pillars
- pinion
- plate
- plates
- pointer
- provenance
- quality
- ratchet
- recordsthe
- registers
- release
- relief
- right
- ring
- rising
- scroll
- scrolls
- set-up
- setting
- signs
- silver
- similar
- simon
- solid
- someone
- son
- sophistication
- sotheby
- spaces
- spandrel
- standard
- steel
- stop-work
- stud
- style
- sun
- sun-rise
- sun-set
- sunrise
- sunrise-sunset
- sunrise/sunset
- sunset
- table
- thompson
- time
- times
- train
- uhr
- use
- venus
- verge
- vol
- wa1947.191.31
- warned
- watch
- watches
- watchmaker
- watchmakers
- week
- weighted
- wheel
- wheels
- wide
- wife
- wilbraham
- xiii
- xxv
- year
- zodiac
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