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View full screenLantern clock with double foliot escapement, of engraved brass plates, corner pillars of silver inset with coloured stones, and revolving silver dial inscribed anti-clockwise with the twelve hour symbols (and with thirteen holes for peg to set alarm bell), within black lacquered case and stand decorated in gold with birds and plants: maker unknown, Japan, mid 19th century
T.2010.53
Unknown
Japan, East Asia
Mid 19th century
Brass, Wood, Lacquer, Gemstone
Exploring East Asia (08 Feb 2019)
National Museum of Scotland
J. Drummond Robertson, The Evolution of Clockwork with a special section on the clocks of Japan. Cassell & Company, 1932, p. 236, figs. 8 & 17 [photograph shows fitted with weights and tassels]
James Stratton, 'Japanese Clocks', Antique Collecting, vol. 44, no. 10
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