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The case  is surmounted by a domed top of square plan, flanked by four urn finials with a figure of a cock in the centre in lacquered gilded brass, the surface chased to represent feathers. The bells are contained within the domed top.  The inside and outside of the back door and the case floor are also <i>Boulle</i>. The sides are fitted with rectangular glazed panels.\n\nThe dial is 12.00 diameter with outer narrow ring of minute numbers, and for the hours, a set of 12 inset slightly domed enamel plaques, each with a Roman numeral in deep blue on a white ground.  Within this, screws mark quarter hour intervals.  The remainder of the dial surface is chased with scrollwork. There is a single winding hole about the VI. The steel hour and minute hands have tails.\n\nThe brass movement plates are 10 cm deep and 10 cms wide. The back plates is signed 'Baltazar Martinot AParis'. The movement consists of a going train with going barrel, verge escapement and pendulum of total length 20 cms suspended from a loop of cord; steel rod, brass-coated lens-shaped bob 2.9 cm diameter, maximum thickness 1.0 cm, resting on a rating nut.\nQuarter repeating train powered wholly by a thin spring within a flanged pulley with pull-wind. Ting tang quarters on two bells, hours on one bell. ","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Baltazar Martinot","id":"AUTH345719"},"association":{"text":"clockmaker","id":"AAT25397"},"note":"Baltazar Martinot II was Valet de Chambre -Horloger-Ordinaire de La Reine (Anne of Austria) from 1665 and  from 1678-9 and 1693-5 Horloger Ordinaire du Conseil du Roi (Louis XIV). By 1700 Martinot's inventory demonstrates that he then owned the largest stock of clocks in Paris."}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"turtleshell","id":"x37611"},{"text":"tin","id":"AAT133748"},{"text":"brass","id":"AAT10946"},{"text":"tin","id":"AAT133748"}],"techniques":[{"text":"chasing","id":"AAT54016"},{"text":"engraving","id":"AAT53829"},{"text":"boulle work","id":"AAT53854"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"brass, tin and turtleshell with chased ormolu mounts, brass movement and steel hands","categories":[{"text":"Clocks & Watches","id":"THES48976"},{"text":"Metalwork","id":"THES48920"},{"text":"Woodwork","id":"THES48877"}],"styles":[{"text":"baroque","id":"AAT21147"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"MET","id":"THES48599"},"images":["2010EC6709"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"002","id":"THES303545"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Clock","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Paris","id":"x29068"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":"The signature ' Baltazar Martinot AParis' represents Baltazar Martinot II (b.Rouen 1636 d. St Germain-en-Laye 30 December 1714) who worked in Paris from 1683 when he was established in Rue Galande. He moved to Quai des Orfevres at the sign of La Belle Image in 1697. He retired to St Germain-en-Laye in 1710. His family were celebrated Paris clockmakers, known from 1572."}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""},{"date":{"text":"1710","earliest":"1710-01-01","latest":"1710-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Bequeathed by John Jones ","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"47.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"22.8","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Depth","value":"18.2","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"03/08/2017","earliest":"2017-08-03","latest":"2017-08-03"},"part":"Case","note":"The measurements are transcribed from the registered description by Dr Ward made in the 1970s"}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"Baltazar Martinot AParis","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"Balthazar Martinot in Paris","transliteration":"","type":"","note":""}],"objectHistory":"The clock features in an engraved view of John Jones's Dining Room at 95 Piccadilly, London. The side panels are thought to be later replacements. This clock was among a large collection of furniture, porcelain, metalwork, paintings and books owned by the tailor and businessman John Jones, and kept in cramped conditions at his Piccadilly house. In his will of 4 December 1879 and in a codicil of 22 January 1880, Jones bequeathed the objects to the South Kensington Museum, and they were transferred there after his death in 1882. The Handbook to the Jones bequest, published in 1883, marvels at the value of the gift, which seems still not to have been displayed to best advantage: 'Probably a large majority of those who visit the Jones collection will be indisposed to believe ... that so limited a space as three not large galleries in the Museum can contain furniture and decorative arts worth no less than a quarter of a million of money'. Jones' principal collecting interests lay in French eighteenth-century furniture and decorative arts, of which this clock is an example, as well as reflecting the late-Victorian love of rich, gilded surfaces and historical artistic styles. In John Jones's Collection by 1882, this was one of sixteen clocks he bequeathed to this museum.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Repeating bracket clock in boulle case mounted in ormolu by Baltazar Martinot, Paris. c. 1710","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":""},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":""},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Messrs. Foster, &lt;u&gt; Inventory of the Collection of Pictures, Miniatures, Decorative Furniture, Porcelain, Objects of Art, Books formed by the late John Jones, Esq of No 95 Piccadilly And bequeathed by him to the Trustees of the South Kensington Museum for the benefit of the Nation, &lt;/u&gt;&lt;u&gt;p.25 no.357&lt;/u&gt;; &lt;u&gt;Catalogue of the Jones Collection&lt;/u&gt; Part II, 1924, London: Printed under the authority of the Board of Education, 1924, no.250, p.65. "},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Messrs. Foster, <u>Inventory of the Collection of Pictures, Miniatures, Decorative Furniture, Porcelain, Objects of Art, Books formed by the late John Jones, Esq of No 95 Piccadilly And bequeathed by him to the Trustees of the South Kensington Museum for the benefit of the Nation, </u><u>p.25 no.357</u>; <u>Catalogue of the Jones Collection</u> Part II, 1924, London: Printed under the authority of the Board of Education, 1924, no.250, p.67. 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