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Their design was based upon the simple weight-driven iron clocks made on the Continent.  The name 'lantern' is probably based on the word 'laton' - meaning brass - as most of them had brass cases.   These clocks were always driven by weights.  They were made either to stand on a bracket or to hang on the wall from a stirrup on the back plate.<br><br><b>Materials & Making</b><br>This is the only known lantern clock with a silver case.  The dial plate, chapter ring, alarm disc, side doors and pierced silver gallery are all of silver.  It must have been made as a special commission for a wealthy patron.  <br><br><b>People</b><br>David Bouquet was a French immigrant who was admitted to the Blacksmiths' Company in 1628.  He joined the Clockmakers' Company as a founder member in 1632.","physicalDescription":"Lantern-shaped clock on four ball feet, the front engraved with pinks, tulips, lilies and other flowers; above, an openwork gallery surmounted by pierced floral crestings with vases at the corners; dial ring with black numerals.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Bouquet, David","id":"A1298"},"association":{"text":"maker","id":"AAT251917"},"note":"David Bouquet was a French immigrant who was admitted to the Blacksmiths' Company in 1628 and joined the Clockmakers' Company as a founder member in 1632. Bouquet was one of sixteen signatories to a petition addressed to King James I in 1622 complaining of foreign clockmakers underselling established British makers in the metropolis; he gave his address as 'at Mr Sampson's House in Blackfriars'. He served as an elder of the French chuch in Threadneedle Street four times between 1637 and 1662.  Bouquet continued to run a prolific workshop in Blackfriars until his death in 1665."}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"Silver","id":"AAT11029"}],"techniques":[],"materialsAndTechniques":"Engraved silver; the gong and finial are later restorations","categories":[{"text":"British Galleries","id":"THES48985"},{"text":"Clocks & Watches","id":"THES48976"},{"text":"Silver","id":"THES251836"}],"styles":[{"text":"Baroque","id":"x47010"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"MET","id":"THES48599"},"images":["2006AM2294","2006AM2296","2006AM2295","2017KB4489"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"56D","id":"THES49242"},"free":"","case":"CA3","shelf":"","box":"6"}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Clock","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"London","id":"x28980"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"ca. 1650","earliest":"1645-01-01","latest":"1654-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[{"object":{"text":"M.1139:2-1926","id":"O380885"},"association":"Part"}],"creditLine":"Purchased from Henry Eckert of Eckert & Blake, 206 Upper Richmond Road, East Sheen.","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"20.1","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"9.4","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Depth","value":"8.6","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Dimensions checked: measured; 16/04/1999 by A.Patterson","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"Inscribed: 'D Bouquet  A Londres'","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":""}],"objectHistory":"Made in London by David Bouquet (active 1632, died in London, 1665)","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Lantern alarm clock, silver, by David Bouquet, circa 1650","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Percy G.Dawson, C.B.Drover & D.W.Parkes, <u>Early English Clocks: A discussion of domestic clocks up to the beginning of the eighteenth century</u> (Woodbridge, 1982), plate 69, p.62; David Thompson,  'Huguenot watchmakers in London, 1600-1750', <u>Proceedings of the Huguenot Society of Great Britain &amp; Ireland</u>, XXVI, No.4, 1996, pp.417-430; pp.420-421."}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"This clock, with its finely pierced and engraved silver case, is signed on the dial 'David Bouquet A Londres' thus betraying the French nationality of its maker.\r\nDavid Bouquet, who was made free of the London Clockmakers' Company in 1632 and died in 1665, was perhaps better known as a watchmaker, and watches by him are to be found in the British Museum, the Mallett Collection and the Palais du Cinquentaire, Brussels. There is an interesting reference to a Bouquet watch in the <font -i>London Gazette</font> of January 10th, 1680: 'Lost lately, a steel watch, finely cut, and the work of it made by Bouquet, in a black shagreen case. Whosoever hath found the same, if they bring it to Mr Michael Scrimpshire, Goldsmith, at the sigh of the Golden Lyon in Fleet Street, shall have 20 s. reward.'\r\nFrom the style of its decoration the case of this extremely rare clock appears to have been made about 1650; the gong and its finial are modern restorations.\r\n'Masterpiece of the Week' (date unknown)","date":{"text":"2001","earliest":"2001-01-01","latest":"2001-12-31"}},{"text":"British Galleries:\r\nThis clock was made by a French craftsman who had settled in London by 1628. This is the only surviving lantern clock of its period in a silver case, as brass was the usual material. This suggests that it was a very special commission.","date":{"text":"27/03/2003","earliest":"2003-03-27","latest":"2003-03-27"}},{"text":"Treasures of the Royal Courts: Tudors, Stuarts and the Russian Tsars label text:\r\n\r\nLantern clock\r\nAbout 1650, with later additions\r\n\r\nEnglish lantern clocks normally have brass cases. This is the only known example with a silver case, which shows that it was a luxury commission. The maker, David Bouquet, was a Huguenot craftsman\r\nwho sought refuge in London when Protestants were exiled from France.\r\n\r\nLondon\r\nSupplied by David Bouquet\r\nSilver, engraved\r\nV&A M.1139-1926\r\n\r\n","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null}}],"partNumbers":["M.1139:1-1926"],"accessionNumberNum":"1139","accessionNumberPrefix":"M","accessionYear":1926,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-25","recordCreationDate":"1998-06-04","availableToBook":false}}