Clock, mantel
Collection object
1989.0078
Case, height 35, B.18, depth (including front) 10.2. Front, 27.2 between feet, 24.7 along top of base of pediment, height at centre 45.7. Glass, as seen through front 24.2 at centre, 13.6 wide. Face 13.2 in diameter, 10.2 in diameter across outside of minute ring. Pendulum 6 in diameter.
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Clock, mantle; by J. Hartman Limerick. Pine, glass-fronted case. Circular dial with Arabic numerals for the hours in black on white (now stained), with minute subdivisions between numerals . Central part of the face and outer ring painted gold. Two keyholes below and either side of the central pivot for the hands. Minute hand spear shaped but with elongated point terminating in a slightly bulbous tip. Hour hand also spear shaped but with a slightly flared shaft and no elongation of the tip. Perforation through the hour-hand at the widest point. Both hands held to central pivot, by a small pin which passes through the central pivot. The face is pinned to a board, in the front upper half of the case, but the area between 4 and 8 o'clock lies below this board and below that swings the pendulum. The board is fastened to the case by two screws. The pendulum itself is gold painted and has a central field with a design of a single daisy-like flower with buds on either side, and an outer circular ring of linked swag motif, with fleur-de-lis rising from the curves. Pendulum is suspended on a jointed two part circular rod which runs to the mechanism and terminates at the lower end in a thread with a milled edged adjusting nut. The lower part of the rod has two short parallel rods held by cross bars. The case is a plain box construction except for the decorative glass front. This is hinged at right; the lower hinge is brass? with an iron pivot, held by two countersunk flat-topped brass screws on either flap. The upper hinge is a repair, made of leather held at the centre on both sides with a small iron nail or panel pin, with two flat-topped iron screws on either side. The front is closed at centre left by a hook which swivels from the case onto an eye set into the edge of the front. This arrangement also probably a repair, a very crude arrangement, and a hole in the side of the case by the hook suggests an earlier arrangement for closing. The front has fluted columns either side of the glass, with gold painted acanthus leaves in relief in the centre of the bases and capitols. The top of the front is arched between the column, with a rectangular pane of glass set behind it held by laths on either side. A curved fluted pediment rises above the top of the case with columns at either side terminating in gold painted lidded urns. Central gold painted spear-shaped projection at the top of the pediment, containing a raised central rosette. Within the pediment is a gold painted drapery interlace design in relief. The case, apart from the back, is stained dark brown. The inside back of the case below the frame is lined with brown paper printed in gold with a sunburst design, in the centre of which are the interlinked letters "TH". At the bottom of the inside back, is a white printed label, torn at its top right corner, reading "J. HARTM..../ (LATE E. MOSER),/ Watch and Clockmaker, Jy. Je. &/ 2 PATRICK STREET, LIMERICK", followed by two lines of dots, which are filled in by hand in black ink; the upper reads "Mrs Braun?" the lower "330R 1910". At top left the label is overwritten in blue ink, "1910". On the back of the case is the inscription in black ink "EH4425". Within the case is the winged winding key, with square sunken head.
J Hartman (clockmaker)