Mantel clock, drum-shaped movement inset into bronze rockwork with an ormolu figure of Wiliam Shakespeare, on deep bronze plinth base with ormolu decoration, c.1840.
Category
Horology
Date
1840
Materials
Ormolu and bronze mantel clock.
Measurements
395 x 312 x 105 mm
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Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 514785
Summary
Mantel clock, drum-shaped movement inset into bronze rockwork with an ormolu figure of Shakespeare, on deep bronze plinth base with ormolu decoration, c.1840. From Racing Room.
Provenance
Bequeathed to the National Trust by Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966) with the house and the rest of the contents.